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Plugin Translation Efforts?

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  • Original title: Plugin Translation Efforts?
  • Original author: Dankovsky
  • Original date: January 8, 2018
  • Source thread: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/threads/plugin-translation-efforts.89604/
  • Source forum path: Game Development Engines > RPG Maker Javascript Plugins > JS Plugin Requests

Summary

There are a lot of plugins that were made by users unfamiliar with english language with their documentation written in other languages. Now, it's unreasonable to ask the authors to translate their plugins, but this makes them extremely hard to use and understand for the general english speaking community. The few examples I could think of are: - MOG Plugins (https://atelierrgss.wordpress.com/) - hundreds of wonderful plugins, but all plugin documentation is in Portuguese, so you have to guess and experiment when working with them. - Triacontane's plugins (https://github.com/triacontane/RPGMakerMV) - a...

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There are a lot of plugins that were made by users unfamiliar with english language with their documentation written in other languages. Now, it's unreasonable to ask the authors to translate their plugins, but this makes them extremely hard to use and understand for the general english speaking community.

The few examples I could think of are:
- MOG Plugins (https://atelierrgss.wordpress.com/) - hundreds of wonderful plugins, but all plugin documentation is in Portuguese, so you have to guess and experiment when working with them.
- Triacontane's plugins (https://github.com/triacontane/RPGMakerMV) - a lot of great plugins, but all documentation and even description is in Japanese, you can only guess what the plugins do and experiment with them.

Having them translated to English would make them available to the general community and would help everyone empower their games. I know there already were amazing efforts to translate Terms of Use from Japanese resource blogs, but what do you think about translating plugin documentation? Would someone be up to this task?

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Having them translated to English would make them available to the general community and would help everyone empower their games. I know there already were amazing efforts to translate Terms of Use from Japanese resource blogs, but what do you think about translating plugin documentation? Would someone be up to this task?

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