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Translations are a thing that are going to happen, as a fair portion of the world does not speak English as a first language. This project page aims to organize efforts surrounding the localization of the wiki. From pure traffic statistics, our first translations are likely going to be in German and French. We won't officially start translating until we've purged all the incomplete articles from the wiki, so that volunteer translators will at least have a base to work from if they don't get any of the comics.

Scope

Here's a few scope issues we need to agree on.

• What should the URLs be?
• Image translation
• Template translation
• Should we keep the original English comic data around on our translation wikis?
• Local admins - currently, we have no visible candidates to manage the French wiki, and one eligible German. Identifying viable candidates will be difficult for current admins, as I do not believe any of us actually speak French.
• Shared data - I'm only planning on sharing login data between the translation wikis, because pretty much everything will need translating. That means contribution history and existing pages will not be carried over, and templates will need to be manually carried over.

Feel free to edit this page and its talk page to bring up anything else I may have. Given the projected starting trigger of full article completion, we'll probably start opening the translation wikis up for public editing in about 0 days. In the meantime, we'll work on getting the parallel wikis set up and making sure that they aren't broken.