In the old Forum we had a few Ports posted that were not in English Language.
Some were Russian, some were German, and i think i saw a French one.
From experience i can say that not many people know english very well where i'm from, and they would feel more comfortable if there was more of their native content around here.
One of the things that i planned to do with the Port Database was allowing non-english Ports in there.
So you can post a Port totally in Russian or German or French or whatever into the Port Database.
Each non-english Port has to be tagged at the end of the title with [RU] or [DE] or [FR] for example. That's it.
Example how this could look like in the Port Database:
Crysis Warhead [RU]
Final Fantasy VII
Mirror's Edge
Mass Effect 2 [DE]
Fallout New Vegas
(the ones that do not have a [language] tag are in plain english.
The language in these Ports can be written entirely in that non-english language.
A few reasons for this:
- limiting the Port Database just for English speakers may limit it's potentional
- a good half of the people here speak English, the other half does not. (i see this in the statistics)
- some other non-english sites also try to building up a some sections with Wine Ports, with this they can submit their Ports here as well.
- there are some Language Packs planned for this system, so in the future one can view the Board and the Port Database in other languages
We could add a little flag to each Port that shows what Language the Posts in the PDB are written in, but the [language] tags in the game's title is usually noticed firstly.
What do you think?
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Allow non-english Ports in the Port Database. [RU], [DE], [FR]...
Started By devilhunter, Apr 21 2012 04:05 PM
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Posted 21 April 2012 - 04:05 PM
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Posted 21 April 2012 - 04:24 PM
this is not a bad idea ... But do you think you could place the non english ports in a special section into port database . so english speaking users don't get confused 
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Posted 21 April 2012 - 07:52 PM
Isnt there a poll you can add?
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Posted 21 April 2012 - 08:17 PM
why wouldn't there be non-english ports?
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Posted 21 April 2012 - 08:21 PM
I don't really care, but hey, why not? If it helps more people.
Games I own that still need porting:
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Descent 3, Fallout, Space Rangers 2
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 01:07 AM
I think this is a fantastic idea. We should definitely allow other languages into the port database. I do not think however that we should segregate these ports from the english language ports. Kinda defeats the purpose of expanding the Port Database. If the user clicks on the port without noticing the language tags they'll definitely notice the non english text and then realize that the port was uploaded in another language.
I vote yes!
I vote yes!
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:47 PM
I agree with DankoB here. We're keeping things sorted by game category, let's stick with that. Making extra categories for language-specific ports would make it a pain to browse through in my opinion.
As long as they have a [LANGUAGE] tag, they can stay in the same category as the English ports.
As long as they have a [LANGUAGE] tag, they can stay in the same category as the English ports.
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 08:47 PM
Nice!
[LANGUAGE] tag is a great idea.
Edit: Oops, totally forgot about the "Like" button. >.<
[LANGUAGE] tag is a great idea.
Edit: Oops, totally forgot about the "Like" button. >.<
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Posted 24 April 2012 - 01:27 AM
I have one French port here in the Scummvm section - so language tag would be good.
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Posted 24 April 2012 - 03:25 AM
I would definitely agree with this idea... IF the language tag would be in the front of the game's name. For example:
[RU] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Mirror's Edge
[DE] Mass Effect 2
Fallout New Vegas
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Mirror's Edge
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Fallout New Vegas
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 11:55 AM
As long as I can still get them in english 
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 03:47 PM
I won't put the tag in front of the package name. I'm not a native speaker of English, but I'd still looking for the name of the game first.
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 04:07 PM
Hrachya, on 24 April 2012 - 03:25 AM, said:
I would definitely agree with this idea... IF the language tag would be in the front of the game's name. For example:
[RU] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Mirror's Edge
[DE] Mass Effect 2
Fallout New Vegas
[RU] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Mirror's Edge
[DE] Mass Effect 2
Fallout New Vegas
And another user explained it to you, Hrachya, why putting them before the Port Name would not be very good.
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ginevo, on 25 April 2012 - 03:47 PM, said:
I won't put the tag in front of the package name. I'm not a native speaker of English, but I'd still looking for the name of the game first.
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 11:42 PM
I don't want to bump into a German port and start reading, then after 20 minutes realize it's not English. So the tag should be in the front. Or as Htminc said, put them into a different section.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 08:50 PM
Hrachya, on 25 April 2012 - 11:42 PM, said:
I don't want to bump into a German port and start reading, then after 20 minutes realize it's not English. So the tag should be in the front. Or as Htminc said, put them into a different section.
Joke aside, the Wrappers are always English anyway. Only the description in the Port Database would be in a different language than usual.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 10:21 PM
Once i was reading Spanish and after about ten minutes I realised it aint English.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 11:00 PM
Hrachya, on 26 April 2012 - 10:21 PM, said:
Once i was reading Spanish and after about ten minutes I realised it aint English.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 11:02 PM
No man I dont know Spanish (at all) I was trying to read but I didnt understand any of it. After 10 minutes I realized it aint English
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 12:45 AM
Not sure if it is good idea. There would be multiple version for one port, and each one may contain different version of wrapper, this could lead only to problems. Better idea would be to add possibility for registered users to add translated description to the existing port (author/moderator/translation moderator to confirm to prevent invalid entries), and the forum setting/geolocation would select which language will show to user by default (or just adding country flag to the port, which will switch language).
Only problems I see there is that port comments may go multi-language, and it may be harder to implement.
Also, we would finally find out what is blinxfrost mother language
Only problems I see there is that port comments may go multi-language, and it may be harder to implement.
Also, we would finally find out what is blinxfrost mother language
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