Proposal: INT-Hub

Proposal: INT-Hub

Dr_Grom 09 May 2018 21:22

Hereby we, the branches of the SCP Foundation, propose to create a hub on the main branch's Wiki, featuring translations from the International Translation Archive from other languages to English. We suggest to count this as another series, similar to -J or -EX, to prevent mixing things up with the main series.

We suggest you delegate staff members who decide what translations to show on your wiki. The background, writing style and references differ from branch to branch, not everything may be suitable for EN from the start. Optionally, we can provide articles we deem ready for EN, if your staff capacity is maxed out.

INT's Review Team will check the chosen translations for any mistakes and format with top priority. We suggest your delegates also check the chosen articles.

There are three ways to add translations to your wiki:

1. Embedd them from INT (recommended)
   • There will never be a difference between both translations
   • Embedded pages are indistinguishable from the original for the reader
   • Rating module and comments are running on the wiki the page is displayed, and unrelated to each other
   • The pages will be locked to prevent vandalism
2. Link to INT
   • Organizational the best way, but the users will land on INT and we will need a technical solution for them to go back to EN
   • Users would need to join INT to rate and comment
   • The pages will be locked to prevent vandalism
3. Copy them
   • This bears the disadvantage that both your and our version may differ at some point. This way is not suggested.

Much content will be needed to justify own hubs for each branch, so we recommend to put all translations into this INT-Hub. We have prepared a mock-up of how this might look (please note that this is a mock-up, the content is just for presentation). Of course you are free to use another layout.
As the look of such a hub depends on the amount of content, we have prepared different cases:

• Much content
• Medium content
• Few content
• Few content (Alternative)

To make sure that all users notice that they are not in the main series, you could put the INT-SCPs in an own category and apply the INT's theme to it for example.

Re: Proposal: INT-Hub

Decibelles 09 May 2018 23:22

This proposal thread comes as a surprise for me, now that I have been told that this proposal was approved by the majority of the branches.

I will admit to being annoyed about this situation (hence me making a post like this). I've lobbied hard for this exact thing in the two previous threads on this issue (one proposed two years ago), which anqxyr, Roget and I have not only put time into making (I think over the course of a year and change, it went through countless revisions and involved showing multiple others), but with the code still available for anyone who asks. I feel like a fourth thread on this subject is a bit redundant, not to mention the communication with staff in general has been lackluster. I won't blame anyone for that, but being caught off-guard like this was not something I wanted to see.

Especially since the last time I posted about this, I was literally unable to gain any real traction with it. Having edited the hubs multiple times to peoples' liking, and trying to show it around and get people to post… that didn't happen, so I was stonewalled from actually doing anything with this with anqxyr and Roget. I'd like to know what the issue in communication was so further incidents can be avoided in the future by all parties. I'd also like to personally request, whether we use this thread to move forward with this proposal and making this hub/these hubs a reality, or if we use the last 05 thread, to work on these with whoever is the main leader behind it or with others if we are to migrate to the old 05 thread. Considering that this has been a passion project of mine for three years now, I'd like to at least have a hand in the final product.

Re: Proposal: INT-Hub

Dr Grym 10 May 2018 13:28

I'd say the main problem was to set up a real vote and acting after this on the English wiki : even though Deci, Roget and others from -EN did an incredible job, no further action was fully voted/decided and implemented. I hope this time is the time !

There was a lot of changes since the last thread, so I can understand this new one : -INT was formed, EN got more and more involved in it, and a lot of things happened in the International SCP community in general.

Re: Proposal: INT-Hub

RJB_R 11 May 2018 14:07

Given the amount of work Decibelle put into the project, proceeding with the structure and iconography she created is the only way it would work for the main branch. I’m sorry for not getting your attention to it earlier, this round discussion came during a busy time in my life and I forgot about the existing work.

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