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The websites of the original ''Super Smash Bros.'' and ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' are only available in Japanese, and their contents have remained largely a mystery for a large part of series history. The '''Twelve and Twenty-Six Translation Project''' is SmashWiki's initiative to translate these websites. | |||
==Why translate those old pages?== | ==Why translate those old pages?== | ||
Just as the Dojo!! has provided numerous bits of information and official names of techniques | Just as the ''Brawl''{{'}}'s Dojo!! has provided numerous bits of information and official names of techniques, the websites of ''SSB64'' and ''Melee'' contain equally valuable information for their respective games. For example, a look at the ''SSB64'' website reveals that two attacks can clang if they deal within 10 damage, which differs from the value of 9 used in later games; it also reveals that the term "meteor smash" was in use since the beginning. However, even a web translation of these pages returns rather disconnected and hard-to-understand information, especially since the results are interpreted literally and video-game specific terms are often not understood. | ||
==Project setup== | ==Project setup== | ||
The structure of translating these sites is to create one page for each page, essentially duplicating the sites' structures. Therefore, the process of translating will be: | |||
*Create a page at either <code>SmashWiki:12TP/PlausibleName</code> (SSB64 pages) or <code>SmashWiki:26TP/PlausibleName</code> (SSBM pages). | *Create a page at either <code>SmashWiki:12TP/PlausibleName</code> (SSB64 pages) or <code>SmashWiki:26TP/PlausibleName</code> (SSBM pages). | ||
*At the top of the page, provide a link to the original page. | *At the top of the page, provide a link to the original page. | ||
* | *Do not directly link to images. Instead, upload them onto the wiki, or simply use a short text description of the image. If the image is entirely text or mostly text with some simple shapes, consider replicating them with HTML and CSS instead. | ||
*Link to other translated pages (if they exist), just like the links on the original sites. | *Link to other translated pages (if they exist), just like the links on the original sites. | ||
*If you don't translate the entirety of a page, then paste in the bits you haven't translated in the original Japanese. | *If you don't translate the entirety of a page, then paste in the bits you haven't translated in the original Japanese. | ||
== | ==HTML conversion== | ||
=== | These sites are over a decade old, and as a result use HTML that has since been deprecated or may not display correctly on all browsers. In addition, raw HTML should generally not be used in wiki pages. As a result, much of the original pages' code should be upgraded and converted into wikicode. | ||
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* | '''If you are okay with translating a new page but do not feel comfortable with updating the formatting, don't worry about it.''' You may place only the text on the page with minimal formatting and a more able user will format it later. It would be appreciated if you also left <!--HTML comments--> with markers such as "blue text starts here". | ||
*[[SmashWiki:12TP/ | |||
*[[SmashWiki:12TP | Use the following as a guideline for converting from old syntax to new: | ||
*[[SmashWiki: | *<code><nowiki><p>...</p></nowiki></code> should be removed and replaced with line breaks. | ||
*<code><nowiki><table></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki><img></nowiki></code> should be convereted into their wikicode equivalents. | |||
*<code><nowiki><center></center></nowiki></code> should be replaced with <code><nowiki><div style="text-align:center"></div></nowiki></code> or similar. | |||
*<code><nowiki><blockquote></blockquote></nowiki></code> should be replaced with <code><nowiki><div class="blockquote"></div></nowiki></code>. | |||
*In table headers, <code><nowiki>border=1</nowiki></code> should be replaced with <code><nowiki>class="border-1"</nowiki></code>, with a matching number. | |||
*<code><nowiki><font></nowiki></code> tags should be converted into <code><nowiki><span style=""></nowiki></code> tags where possible. | |||
**Note that at the time, browsers [[wikipedia:Quirks mode|did not inherit]] font styles down through table elements. So if a table is -1 and a cell is also -1, this does '''not''' mean the cell is a combined -2, but rather they are both just -1. | |||
**There is no standard way to convert from <code><nowiki><font size=#></nowiki></code> to <code><nowiki><span style="font-size:#"></nowiki></code>. These numbers seem accurate in most cases. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/819079/how-to-convert-font-size-10-to-px) | |||
***-2 (1): 0.625em | |||
***-1 (2): 0.825em | |||
***+0 (3): 1.0em | |||
***+1 (4): 1.125em | |||
***+2 (5): 1.5em | |||
***+3 (6): 2.0em | |||
***+4 (7): 3.0em | |||
==Pages== | |||
===''SSB64''=== | |||
*[[SmashWiki:12TP/Home|Home]] | |||
*[[Special:PrefixIndex/SmashWiki:12TP|List of pages]] | |||
===''Melee''=== | |||
*[[Special:PrefixIndex/SmashWiki:26TP|List of pages]] | |||
==Source websites== | ==Source websites== | ||
*[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/ The main page of the ''SSB64'' website] | *[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/ The main page of the ''SSB64'' website] | ||
*[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/flash/index.html The main page of the ''Melee'' website] ([[Smabura-Ken]]) | *[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/flash/index.html The main page of the ''Melee'' website] ([[Smabura-Ken]]) | ||