Doubleposting because this is amazing. They link back to the original articles using the "Item Number" section, list the pertaining SCPs (if any) on their tales section, have a few translated staff author pages, and have links to the SCPs in collapsibles on the side. Also they have a little disclaimer-thing on the front page that roughly translates to (as far as I can tell) "since this is a translation, please join the home wiki site and read the "New Members and Info" if you want to be involved in creating new SCPs."
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this is excellent how have I not seen this before
Edit: I'm currently checking to see if they have original content. There's a link to a sandbox, but it doesn't seem to be working…
Does seem pretty solid. If they're posting original content as well, I'd say they're in good shape for a front page link.
Okay, user Gaadjin (new member, fluent in Japanese!) sent me the following when I asked them to take a look around the site:
Hi again,
Interesting! The oldest comment is in late June this year, suggesting that the site was created around that time. If so, they have translated all that in three months - and from what I can tell, the translations are fairly well done, though they have still not agreed on a uniform way of translating certain terms (such as Special Containment Procedures).
One thing that puzzles both me and this site's owner, it seems, is that there is a wikidot-hosted site called "SCP Foundation Japanese Branch Office " with the same format as the original site, but that is completely empty of content (link: [http://scp-wiki-jp.wikidot.com/]) The site is linked to from the fc2-hosted site you sent me, with the confused-sounding comment "official Japanese version?" Is this site created by the official staff as a placeholder for a potential Japanese version, perhaps?
At any rate, I cannot find the owner's contact information anywhere at the page. From what I can tell by reading the comments there is only one administrator, and the translators are using the comments section to communicate with them. Should I write a comment in Japanese requesting the owner to contact the main site, or to leave their contact information? Or do the staff of the main site wish to write a comment themselves (I can translate in that case, if you feel sending in Japanese is preferable)? Asking over the wiki's comment section is of course not the best way but I at least can't think of any other options…
Oh and at this time, there is no original content from what I can tell. It is purely a volunteer-driven translation project, albeit one at a very large scale!
Regards,
Gaadjin
Admins, I'd like to hear from you regarding what further action to take. This Japanese site seems very well organized and maintained, and I personally would like to see it being displayed on the front page of the mainsite. Thing is though, it seems to be just a straight-up translation site, and if the translators want it to stay that way, then I don't want to push them.
Part of the qualifications to become an "official" linked site is that they produce their own original material. I do agree that this site is wonderfully built and maintained (as near as I can tell with the language barrier & Google machine translation), but without their own new material, they don't qualify.
As for the other Japanese-language site here on wikidot, I took a quick look and it appears to be mostly abandoned, and they didn't/don't have any original material either. I vaguely recall us having a thread about them a while back, but they don't seem to have done much with the site in the meantime. If this new one can get things rolling, I see no reason why they shouldn't become the recognized Japanese translation site.
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Got a PM from user Devanos today:
Hello, I'm Devanos member of SCP Korea wiki(http://www.scp-kr.net).
Having wanted to expand SCP Universe, I've created a new site.
Now I introduce the new SCP Site, 'The SCP Foundation Japan Wiki'. Site link is here: http://scp-jp.wikidot.com
We comply with the CC-BY-SA; There is attribution in this page, and a CC-BY-SA License in the bottom of site.
We have started to create own Japanese SCPs(SCP-JP).
If you think it is enough to link our wiki to the main of SCP Wiki, please post this topic on Admin site.
p.s. Is there any way I can get the domain; like http://jp.scp-wiki.net ?
Edit: A look at the member page tells me that there are currently seven members on the site. Seeing as I'm not fluent in Japanese, I don't know how accurate the translations are, but I can ask around (Gaadjin might be able to help, I think?)
Got two PMs from Gaadjin, who keeps an eye on O5, it seems. Yay!
Hello again!
I just read your post in the 05 forums and have been looking around the new site. I can tell you that they do not seem to be translating much of anything except guidelines on their own, instead contemplating linking to the other unofficial translation-only wiki or just copying over the already-translated pages. Since the translators there want to remain anonymous, they don't want to force them to register on the new site. They have managed to have the fc2 wiki link to them and it now says on that main page as well that members may voluntarily transfer translated articles to the new wiki. However I don't see any translated articles on the new site yet.
For that matter, there are not many original articles yet either (there are a total of 3, and no discussion about them seem to be taking place yet). The site is only a week old of course, so it might take a while before these activities become alive in earnest.
The moderators seem well aware of the requirements for official recognition and it looked like they had agreed to not pursue that yet from the only existing moderation thread. They must have changed their mind since they PM'd you.
Personally I think the translation aspect is unclear… how do they want to develop this aspect of the site, and to what extent are they or are they willing to cooperate with the fc2 wiki, I wonder? At any rate, I have joined the site and will see how things develop.
Greetings,
Gaadjin
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Forget the comment about no discussion! I had for some reason forgot to check page-wise discussion. Comments and opinions about the original SCPs are indeed taking place.
I'd personally like to see the site develop a little more, but it seems like they're off to a great start. Seeing as they're linked with the fc2 wiki, which has done a lot of translating so far, I'm confident that the JP wiki can be linked in the near future.
Based on current status, I don't think we should link them yet, but they seem well on their way towards getting there. I would definitely like to see more than just 3 original articles. The membership seems small, but that may just be an aspect of them being relatively new. I'd say to give them a couple of months to develop further and reconsider at that time.
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Unrelated to this Japanese site, but it's about a Japanese site so into this thread it goes.
Recently, Alivi, a user who has been working on her own japanese translation side project, messaged me that someone had hijacked her wiki. She is no longer able to access it, and all links now redirect to Devanos(korean wikis) sites. Her site is now completely gone, redirecting to Devanos's site. Apparently he had contacted her about doing some work on her site, so I don't know if he hijacked it or if something else has happened, but if someone who has regular contact with Devanos could clarify, that would be great./
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