Topic: Must translations be reviewed to be included?

Hello olahh and welcome to the forums

All translations will be used, regardless of whether they are reviewed or not. Most languages don't have enough active translators to review the strings, so reviews are entirely optional.

Thank you for translating Widelands

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Translating online has the advantage of Transifex's translation memory, glossary, and automated translation checks, but offline translation is also possible: Go to the Dashboard and select Resources, then click on the resource you want to translate, then click on your language and in the popup use the options "Download file to translate" and "Upload file".

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Thank you for the help. I did the translation with the help of Google Gemini 3, and it worked very well. The language is perfect, I couldn't have done it better myself. And this way I was able to finish the translation (except, for now, the tribes encyclopedia), something I would never have managed to do if translating alone and manually. Gemini was able to perfectly understand the context and linguistic style, and it made no spelling errors. Absolutely no errors! To get more languages complete for this game, I think this method should be encouraged.

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Of course, I agree with everything you write. One must be careful. From what I can see, Gemini 3 is much better than everything else, when it comes to my language.

The ethical question I understand, but I choose to be pragmatic, especially in a non-commercial project like this. If I hadn't used this method and the available tools, the translation would never be completed, but if I actually had managed to do the translation manually, the result would have been nearly identical. So in my view, noone is losing anything because of this. As long as noone complains, I will continue in this way with other open source projects.

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Yes, I see now that I could have shown a more humble attitude towards this topic, there are pitfalls that I haven't anticipated. And I might have come across as a completely reckless baffoon. I agree, it is better to ask about the policy before starting. However, I personally am inclined to be pragmatic if it is for the greater good. So my stance is that I still think that the result from using automated or manual translation would be the same in this case, and it would be completely impossible to make a claim that I've used copyrighted material in doing this translation. Except for the fact that I've just told you here. So if you think my contribution to this game is inappropriate, I apologize, and I can remove it. It see that it is quite rude to come here as a completely unknown and make my own rules for how Widelands is developed.

Then I could wait a couple of months, and tell everyone that I did the translation myself, and then upload the files again, and everyone would be happy

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