Thread:Rhiabloom12/@comment-6192846-20130601165646

I wanted to personally thank you for all your work translating material and posting it on the wiki; your return to revise past blog posts and update your translations has been appreciated. For this reason, we are asking for your input on one of several projects we are considering to help improve the wiki's standards, including our source material.

The current idea is to ask translators to divide their translations into three sections. Section one would be the direct translations as they have been already posted in the past. Section two would then consist of the translator's personal interpretation of the text (ie, putting it in a format that would grammatical sense when read by a contributer).

With this, we want the translators to piece together a phrase that may literally translate awkwardly or dubiously but would make more sense when reworded by the translator. A simple example:

Section 1: Because parents died successively of illness, she was young at the helm of the Lucifenia Kingdom.

Section 2: Because her parents had died successively of an illness, she was young at the helm of the Lucifenia Kingdom. (alternative: she was at the helm of the Lucifenia Kingdom when young, etc.)

While a simple example, rewording it to make the translation clearer while holding the same meaning reduces confusion over the meaning of a translation and helps us convert the information into the main pages, as well as reduce chances of us changing information as you change the literal translation. Unless an edit to the literal translation changes how you would interpret the text, the second section should remain untouched so we have more conistency, at least in theory.

Section three would be the actual Japanese text being posted and left so anyone wishing to debate the original text can do so and it can be retranslated, if necessary, by someone who lacks the source material but can translate the text.

Your thoughts on this idea? 