Heroes Wiki talk:Languages

Can you setup the same system as wikipedia ? I mean, subdomain.heroeswiki.com where subdomain = 2 letters long language code or something like that. Then in each page, at the bottom of the menu on the left, the link of translated languages for the topic.

I could set that up, yes. As I mentioned on Talk:Main Page I'm a little concerned about the articles becoming very inconsistent between languages and with individual languages falling into disrepair. The approach that Wikipedia takes essentially sets up multiple independent wikis and if the international community would like HeroesWiki to do this, too, then I'm happy to oblige. I put up links to Google translations as an interim measure while we discuss the best way to handle this heading into the future. (Admin 12:52, 6 November 2006 (EST))

Heroes has gained great popularity in China, is it possible to add Chinese language pages on the website? It will surely boost your visit as well.

I believe it would be a very good move.

There anyone who's interested in translating the articles into Chinese? (Admin 09:29, 20 November 2006 (EST))

Dutch HeroesWiki?

Is anyone working on a Dutch HeroesWiki? I'd like to volunteer. I want to make note though, that Heroes isn't yet airing on any Dutch TV channels. It will start airing in Belgium this year but we will not be able to receive that channel. We can however receive British BBC2 and German RTL which will both be broadcasting Heroes in 2007. If it will be picked up in the Netherlands it will probably be broadcasted on one of the Dutch RTL channels since they have a broadcasting agreement with Universal for any of their productions. --Julesvanlaar 08:36, 24 February 2007

• I'd be happy to set up a Dutch version. Do you think you'll be able to get anyone who's interested in Heroes to help you with the translations? Since it's a ton of work to translate the English version into another language it'll probably take a group of people or else you'll probably get exhausted quickly. :) (Admin 11:47, 24 February 2007 (EST))

I'd like to volunteer too, to help with the translations. I'm from Belgium (Vlaanderen), Heroes has started this year (2007)on the Flemisch televisionchannel VT4. So let me know when my help is needed. --iuno 07:00, 13 April 2007 (EDT)

I also like to volunteer the Dutch-subs crew, so if there's any help needed, let me hear it. --User:RicciB 23:46, 13 April 2007 (EST)

• Cool, sounds like there's some demand here so I'll go ahead and setup a Dutch one soon. I'll let you know when it's up. (Admin 21:17, 13 April 2007 (EDT))
  • Ok, the Dutch Heroes Wiki is up at http://nl.heroeswiki.com now. I've transferred the basic English main page and some templates over to it to give it a start. (Admin 22:44, 15 April 2007 (EDT))

Portuguese HeroesWiki?

If anyone is working on a Brazilian Portuguese HeroesWiki, I'd like to volunteer. Even though Heroes is not yet airing on any Brazilian's TV Channels, it looks like Record TV has interest in starting airing it still in 2007. In fact, Heroes Brazilian fans' community has grown very fast and I'm sure we have people enough interested to help to create a Portuguese version of HeroesWiki. Let's think about it! --Foxpretender 15:23, 27 February 2007--

• Hi, Foxpretender. Id be happy to set up a Portuguese version for you if you'd like. I've noticed for a long time that Heroes has seemed to have a strong Portuguese following. I'll let you know when it's ready. (Admin 13:27, 27 February 2007 (EST))
• Yes, please, we fans from Brazil would be delighted if you do so. I'll start to find people to help me. Thanks in advance! --FoX--
  • Ok, it's ready at http://pt.heroeswiki.com. I've imported a little of the English site as a start so it can be translated and then built upon. Good luck and let me know if you need anything! :) (Admin 14:46, 27 February 2007 (EST))
• I was surfing in the portuguese version, i'm brazilian but i some things in english yet, like in the preferences, have 1 option in english. --Hiperbalad 18:08, 27 February 2007 (EST)
  • I think the software has a lot of the messages translated, but not everything. If you give the the text you see in English and then a Portuguese translation for it I can probably change it manually. (Admin 18:41, 27 February 2007 (EST))
• Hey Man? Who will take care of heroes wiki in portuguese? Because "we" need someone who understand portuguese to look to the wrong things, bad words, etc. And where is our link: Artigos(Articles)? --Hiperbalad 21:03, 27 February 2007 (EST)
  • If you're asking about an administrator for the Portuguese site then once it becomes active I'll setup an administrator there. There's not much that actually requires an administrator since everyone can edit the articles themselves so any mistakes can be fixed by anyone. So for now let me know here of any issues and I'll take care of them. I'm also not sure what you're asking about with the Articles link, could you explain? (Admin 21:11, 27 February 2007 (EST))
    • Ofcourse! But i was confused, the question is, what i do to create an article, I can't find any botton! lol --Hiperbalad 21:23, 27 February 2007 (EST)
      • Oh, I understand now. To create a new article just add the name of the article you want to create to the URL. If there's no article already then it will let you create one. You can also create an article by creating a link like [[Somepage]] and then clicking on the link to create the article named "Somepage". (Admin 21:34, 27 February 2007 (EST))
        • I've seen if have some html like this [[1]] if when we do an article we must to write in english, but we need in portuguese! :) Sorry to bother you --Hiperbalad 21:43, 27 February 2007 (EST)
          • It's no bother. :) So your example there is because I copied over some of the templates from the English site so it kept the English name. So all you have to do is go to that Template page on the Portuguese site and use the Move option at the top to move it to a new Portuguese name. Then you can go back and change any references to that template over to the Portuguese name and it'll be correct. (Admin 21:47, 27 February 2007 (EST))

In other languages/Google translations

Can the alternate languages be near or above the Google translations (or Google translations as part of the alternate languages box?), maybe then they would be updated once in a while. Visitors may only see the Google translations and think there is nothing else. -Lөvөl 15:40, 16 April 2007 (EDT)

• I want to do that, but the "navigation" and "google translations" boxes both use a single mechanism that displays one after the other whereas the "in other languages" links use a separate mechanism. So getting the "in other languages" to appear earlier on isn't exactly straight-forward unless I add it beneath "google translations" which pushes the rest of the boxes down. I'll give it some thought. Perhaps simply static links to the main page of each localized wiki in a box under the navigation box so people see them before the google links... or perhaps we could put something on the main page that would draw people to the localized ones. (Admin 16:22, 16 April 2007 (EDT))
  • I think the main page links are a good idea regardless of what you're able to do with the sidebar. I'll put something together.--Hardvice (talk) 16:25, 16 April 2007 (EDT)

Spanish Version

Hola,

I'm interested to post or at least start the effort to add Spanish version of the articles.

Spanish as my mother tongue, I think I could help.

The series is being broadcast trough cable and here in Mexico will start this next Monday (Apr. 30)

Best Regards. Sitmex

Hi

I'm interested in helping to create a Spanish version of the "Heroespedia". I'm Spanish and have been studying English since I was 3 (It was an special school)