Hi everyone,

We've had some great progress with the translations and we're excited to keep that going. We've got coordinators in place for a number of languages now! We've also heard from a few of you that you'd like to be able better to coordinate translations, and that some of you already have, so to make that easier we've set up a space on Discord for you to do so. Please message me, AlejoFBlack (461331989660958721), on Discord with the username or email address that you use here, or your BOTC app ID (any option is fine) and I'll add you to the space. I'm not sure how many requests I'm going to have to handle, so sorry if it takes a while for me to get back to you. Feel free to follow up if it's been a couple of days!

-Alejo

Summary

Project website botc.app
Instructions for translators

This is the translation repository for the official Blood on the Clocktower app and accompanying game materials. English is the base language for the app and any currently untranslated text (both from app and game) will fall back to the English version in the app. Outdated translations will be marked as such in the translation interface. Whenever the app is updated, the most recent translations will be pulled from here and used in the app. The translations are split into 3 parts:

  • Glossary: this contains the general game terms that are being used across the app and game materials. It is (currently) not shown anywhere in the app, but being used to help translators use the same terms for important elements of the game.
  • Game Content: the actual game content that is also being used in the the printed board game. It consists of Edition descriptions, Character text, Reminder text (reminders are shared between different characters) and Jinxes. This content should rarely change and be stable, once translated.
  • App Interface: all interface text that is being used in the app. These will be updated as the app is undergoing further development, so expect frequent changes here and check back frequently.

How to translate

Select the component you want to translate and the language, if it's already been added. Languages that are officially translated (meaning there is a printed version of the game available in this language) require the "official translator" role for updating the game translation. Fan translators can update all game translations for unofficial languages and all app interface translations for all languages, except English. The translations need to follow a few important rules in order to be usable on the app:

  • General: Some translations contain line breaks (\n) and / or tab spaces (\t). These are used for visual formatting and it's recommended to use them appropriately in the translated text as well. Otherwise, the translated version might look weird in the app.
  • Game Content: Night reminder text (roles.[role].first and roles.[role].other) sometimes contain :reminder:as a placeholder for a Reminder token icon. DO NOT TRANSLATE this placeholder! Example: The Butler chooses a player. :reminder: -> Der Butler wählt einen Spieler. :reminder:
  • Game Content: Night reminder text (roles.[role].first and roles.[role].other) sometimes contain *SOMETHING* to mark text as bold. Translate the text, but keep the asterisks in place! Example: Show the Townsfolk character token. Point to both the *TOWNSFOLK* and *WRONG* players. -> Zeige das Bürger-Plättchen. Zeige auf den *BÜRGER* und auf den *FALSCH*en Spieler.
  • App Interface: Curly braces placeholders are being used throughout the app text and are either numbered ({0}, {1}, ...) or named ({link}). DO NOT TRANSLATE these placeholders! They are being used to insert formatting, HTML elements or dynamic information in their place. Example: Seat {0} -> Sitz {0}, Download the latest {label} version here. -> Lade die neueste {label} Version hier runter.
  • App Interface: Pluralized strings are defined with a vertical bar between each form of the string. The first form is singular, the second form is plural. Keep the vertical bar in place, but translate each form accordingly. If your language has a different form for zero and multiple, the correct form is zero something|one something|many something. Example: Demon|Demons -> Dämon|Dämonen, First Day|Day {n} -> Erster Tag|Tag {n} (pluralized strings might also contain curly braced placeholders)
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String statistics

Strings percent Hosted strings Words percent Hosted words Characters percent Hosted characters
Total 99,335 848,395 4,827,393
Source 2,165 18,451 104,988
Approved 42% 42,486 34% 292,631 34% 1,682,647
Waiting for review 15% 15,519 16% 139,632 16% 789,145
Translated 60% 60,170 53% 450,714 53% 2,576,780
Needs editing 1% 754 1% 10,213 1% 58,040
Read-only 2% 2,165 2% 18,451 2% 104,988
Failing checks 1% 1,803 2% 22,698 2% 129,860
Strings with suggestions 1% 373 1% 1,993 1% 11,671
Untranslated strings 38% 38,411 45% 387,468 45% 2,192,573
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Quick numbers

848 k
Hosted words
99,335
Hosted strings
60%
Translated
314
Contributors
4
Components
46
Languages
184
Translations
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Trends of last 30 days

−1%
Hosted words
+100%
−1%
Hosted strings
+100%
+7%
Translated
+53%
−9%
Contributors
+100%
Language Approved Translated Unfinished Unfinished words Unfinished characters Untranslated Checks Suggestions Comments
English 100% 100% 522 1
Afrikaans 1% 8% 1,980 17,740 100,702 1,976 6
Chinese (Simplified Han script) 97% 97% 47 571 3,201 33 14
Czech 40% 40% 1,295 14,670 82,694 1,274 4 25
Danish 41% 83% 356 3,578 20,948 351 131 2 30
Dutch 75% 86% 285 4,545 25,549 89 64 185
English (Pirate) 80% 88% 249 2,544 14,973 178 87 1 3
Esperanto 0% 5% 1,973 18,012 102,309 1,973
Finnish 100% 100% 11 1
French 50% 52% 1,037 13,058 72,885 1,037 79 41
Galician 42% 89% 236 2,892 16,590 230 102 1
Georgian 0% 30% 1,504 15,178 85,672 1,504 6 5
German 97% 98% 42 641 3,603 28 94 33
German (Switzerland) 47% 53% 1,006 11,896 66,820 986 35
Greek 0% 8% 1,973 17,687 100,420 1,973 2 1
Hebrew 9% 52% 1,035 12,055 67,785 1,006 5 2
Hindi 12% 20% 1,721 16,497 93,393 1,700 3
Hungarian 43% 48% 1,111 5,362 31,683 1,111 84
Indonesian 9% 40% 1,283 15,376 87,002 1,282 79 2
Italian 48% 100% 39 2
Japanese 95% 95% 91 2,481 13,445 87 7
Klingon 1% 9% 1,959 17,078 96,974 1,959 2
Korean 95% 95% 87 142 819 86 1 2
Latin 0% 5% 2,051 18,039 102,655 2,051
Lithuanian 0% 12% 1,890 17,387 98,838 1,890 11
Maltese 0% 10% 1,864 17,053 96,381 1,859 4
Norwegian Bokmål 34% 68% 675 12,113 67,729 666 3 19 9
Persian 0% 7% 1,995 17,848 101,461 1,995
Polish 80% 99% 2 78 415 2 6 50
Portuguese (Brazil) 50% 52% 1,038 13,062 72,914 1,038 17
Portuguese (Portugal) 49% 99% 8 105 624 6 5
Romanian 7% 22% 1,675 16,316 92,352 1,673 2
Russian 92% 94% 124 552 3,102 120 69 83 69
Scots 0% 0% 2,080 18,334 104,303 2,080 108
Serbian 0% 47% 1,136 6,870 40,496 1,136 79
Slovak 47% 64% 759 11,357 63,653 754 20 4
Slovenian 54% 74% 545 9,685 53,592 518 27 5
Spanish 51% 52% 1,037 13,058 72,885 1,037 1 33
Spanish (Latin America) 82% 83% 364 3,727 21,737 264 83
Spanish (Mexico) 50%
Swedish
Thai
Toki Pona 0% 28% 1,546 15,084 85,885 1,543 24 48
Turkish 34% 54% 977 11,874 67,121 805 167 14
Ukrainian 66% 94% 129 3,136 17,003 113 8 10 45
Vietnamese 70%
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Suggestion removed during cleanup
Hat
Hut
yesterday
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Suggestion removed during cleanup
Goal
Ziel
yesterday
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Suggestion added
Loric|Loric
Legenda|Legandy
keyword.loric
yesterday
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User avatar Hans

Translation added
Big Wig
Fürsprecher
roles.bigwig.name
yesterday
User avatar Hans

Translation approved
Vanity asks ‘Is it popular?’ Cowardice asks ‘Is it safe?’ Conscience asks ‘Is it right?’ Who among us will ask: ‘Is it true?’
Die Eitelkeit fragt: „Ist es beliebt?“ Die Feigheit fragt: „Ist es sicher?“ Das Gewissen fragt: „Ist es richtig?“ Wer von uns wird fragen: „Ist es wahr?“
roles.bigwig.flavor
yesterday
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Translation approved
Each nominee chooses a player: until voting, only they may speak & they are mad the nominee is good or they might die.
Jeder Nominierte wählt einen Spieler: bis zur Abstimmung darf nur dieser Spieler sprechen & er ist besessen davon, dass der Nominierte gut ist oder er könnte sterben.
roles.bigwig.ability
yesterday
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GitHub: https://api.github.com/repos/ThePandemoniumInstitute/botc-translations, main 2 days ago
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User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi Galician translators,

Thank you very much for working on the translation! We're almost ready to roll out the Galician game content, but before we can do that, we need to make sure it's of a good quality. If you get chance, please review other contributors' work, to make sure that it all makes sense.

-Alejo

a month ago
User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi Ukrainian translators,

Thank you very much for contributing to the app. We'd like to add Ukrainian game content into the app soon, but before we can do that we need to confirm that the translations are of good quality. If you get chance, please review other people's translations, so we can get it in!

-Alejo

a month ago
User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi everyone,

We've had some great progress with the translations and we're excited to keep that going. We've got coordinators in place for a number of languages now! We've also heard from a few of you that you'd like to be able better to coordinate translations, and that some of you already have, so to make that easier we've set up a space on Discord for you to do so. Please message me, AlejoFBlack (461331989660958721), on Discord with the username or email address that you use here, or your BOTC app ID (any option is fine) and I'll add you to the space. I'm not sure how many requests I'm going to have to handle, so sorry if it takes a while for me to get back to you. Feel free to follow up if it's been a couple of days!

-Alejo

3 months ago
User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi all!

With several languages now in the app, we're really happy with how the progress is going! However, we're several weeks into the project and some languages haven't had much if any progress. That's absolutely fine, there's no commitment on your end, but we're going to remove any language with <2% completion in a few days to clean up how the project looks and navigates for those who are working on it. Right now, that's Alemannic, Austrian German, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Croatian, Filipino, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karelian, Peruvian Spanish, both Sami languages, Viossa, and Yiddish. All of these can be added back later (although likely with any work already done lost), and if you expect to start making progress on a language in the near future you can let me know at alejo@thepandemoniuminstitute.com (or anywhere else you can find me) and we can make an exception.

I'll be conducting regular reviews to check that there is some progress being made to all languages, in particular those (Indonesian and Latin) under 5%. If a language doesn't look like it's going to be complete, we still want to say a huge thank you for the time that you did put into it!

-Alejo

5 months ago
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Hi everyone!

We have two dozen languages already in a state where we can put them into the official app! And now we have a new challenge: the Script Tool is finally out and ready to be translated. We've uploaded all the files so you can have at them! Also, even though several languages have been completed, the review process is lagging behind a bit in a lot of languages. As always, don't review anything that you've submitted, but please do feel free to look through them and approve or reject any translations. Finally, while we're ready to name several translation coordinators and will do so in due course, we still feel like there are some languages with a lot of volunteers where we'd still like a coordinator and got no applications. If you weren't sure, please do feel free to apply by emailing me at alejo@thepandemoniuminstitute.com

Thanks again for everything!

Alejo

5 months ago
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Hi everyone,

unfortunately, it looks like the bug in Weblate which blanks your previously submitted, but yet unapproved, translations has struck again. Those translations are not lost, however, you just need to (manually) revert the "blanking", by applying the default fix, which inserts your previous translation once more. Any approved strings should fortunately not be affected. We're currently still working with the developers from Weblate to fix this issue.

Apologies (again) for the inconvenience, bra1n

6 months ago
User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi everyone,

Thank you all so much for the work you've done on the translations so far! We've got a fair number of translations done already, we hope that those of you with completed translations are enjoying playing with the app in your own language.

We're going to make a couple of changes going forward. We're aware of a few issues with our processes and permissions so far - those of you with the 'translator' role can't edit strings that have been approved, even if users have flagged the translations, whereas reviewers have too many permissions and can approve translations. So we're scrapping those roles and replacing them with language-based roles so you can make all changes to your own language. We still want to keep the same policy we had before - all translations should go through two people - so please don't approve your own work! These changes will be rolled out over the next few days.

The second change is more proactive. Even as languages are completed, there will always be more to do. The app is consistently being updated and we're within sight of a release of the new Script Tool, both of which will require further translations, so this is an ongoing project, and we anticipate a drop-off in interest from some of you after the initial translation is done. Also, I've been getting a lot of questions about translations that I can't answer because I don't speak the language, and I'm aware of cases where two camps have formed around competing translations that end up inconsistent in the final translation (Dutch spreukenboek vs grimoire debate, I'm looking at you!). We're going to try to solve both of these problems with the introduction of a "translation coordinator" role to several languages which have a large number of volunteers and are complete or nearing completion. Coordinators will work with me, will have the power to reject suggestions, and will be the deciding voice on any issues that come up. Ideally coordinators will be native or native level in the language and at least fluent in English. I'm also aware that a good number of you have some experience with professional translation; that'd be great, but is by no means necessary. We'll also consider others' recommendations, so if you think you know someone who'd be a good person to lead the translation, or you want to volunteer, reach out to me at alejo@thepandemoniuminstitute.com.

-Alejo

6 months ago
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Good news, everyone!

We've reverted all the accidentally deleted strings and put the first 9 languages of the App Interface translations live! We wanted to include a few that were already translated completely in order to show off the new language support on the app, so the following languages are now available on botc.app: Danish, German, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Swedish

That doesn't mean these languages can't be improved anymore! Matter of fact, now that they're out on the app, we're likely going to receive a lot more feedback and suggestions for them. As such, please keep improving them and we'll regularly synchronize any changes made into the official app. Approved strings can currently only be changed by a reviewer, so if you would like to change teams, let us know and we're happy to give everyone the right permissions to continue working on their translations.

Thanks again for being so awesome!

bra1n

6 months ago
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Hey everyone,

we're currently facing a serious issue that has caused quite a few submitted translations to be reverted. Fret not, those translations are not lost, they can be easily fixed: You can find all the currently "lost" translations here: https://translation.botc.app/checks/translated/botc-app/app-interface/ (simply click on your language) Weblate will automatically suggest a fix for them in the top right corner, simply click that button and hit "Save". Apologies for the extra work, we'll also slowly go through these and revert the deletions where applicable.

Regards, bra1n

6 months ago
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Hej Danish translators,

it looks like Weblate kept eating your submitted translations for some reason, whenever we update the English source file. I've gone ahead and manually approved all of these translations now so that they would be persisted and no longer get lost with further updates to the English sources. Please treat them still as if they were unreviewed and make sure that they're good enough. :-) Apologies for the inconvenience!

  • bra1n
6 months ago
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