Board Thread:Announcements/@comment-28083312-20170106093227

We’ve recently brought Interlanguage links to most of our pages. However, they are incredibly flawed. Some of them work, such as for the Twin page, because the Twin is called the Twin (in the Latin Alphabet) on all of the other language Wikis, & so the Interlang template works. However, some concepts, such as Stats, Upgrades, Tanks, et cetera, don’t a universally standard name, & are usually named in the language of the Wiki they are on. For example, on the Spanish Wiki, their Tanks page is called “Tanques,” so the Interlang template does not work. For the Tanks page, the Interlang template has to be removed, replaced with the raw links, & then configured to make sure they link to the correct pages on the corresponding Wikis. An example of what had to be done on the Main Page is below: Changed to: I had to go to each of those seven Wikis, find their mainpage, & link them directly at the bottom of our corresponding Mainpage, because the Interlang template simply did not work. As you can probably imagine, this poses a big problem, & will require every single one of our pages to be updated. All of the links need to be checked, & if necessary, fixed. This will be quite a delicate project that requires a sharp eye & good tracking. We need volunteers we can trust to be able to go to each of our Foreign Language counterparts, find the right articles, & then link them. Not only that, there is also the problem that on some of those Wikis, the pages simply don’t exist; they either haven’t made a corresponding page yet, or don’t intend to. Our Volunteers need to be able to be absolutely certain that they got the right page, or that such a page does not exist, in which case the default link suffices. In addition to that, we need to be able to track which pages have been checked for accuracy, so the Review Category will have to be added to pages that have been gone over by a Volunteer.

If you’re interested in being a Volunteer for this project, then leave me a message on my Wall, & I will talk to you about what exactly you’ll be doing. I think I went over the gist of it, but there’s one or two more specifics. We will need about 4 Volunteers to help, & anyone is welcome. I predict that this may take some time, so “Helper” tags will be given Volunteers for the duration of the project, & a medal will be awarded to each at its end. 