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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:20 pm 
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hi,

We're in the process of drafting Wikipedia articles in non-English languages to improve the reputation. It tickles me that Twilight Heroes already has 2 whereas ye olde Kingdom of Loathing has nary one full-length one in anything other than English.
I need someone who can work in these languages: German, Italian and Spanish. I am currently trying to compress content from both the Malay and English wikipedia articles to form the Italian one; a stub got destroyed by the Italian sysops.

Who's with me?

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:47 pm 
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I've noticed that someone's beaten me to it as regards to producing a Bahasa Malaysia edition of the wiki article, so I've just taken elements of it and translated it into Italian, and then pared down the text.
We currently have the following draft:

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Twilight Heroes (in inglese, “Supereroi Crepuscolari", ossia “Eroi di Twilight”) è un MMORPG al tema di supereroi, progettati e prodotti in inglese nell'ottobre 2007 dalla società Quirkz Media. In TH, i giocatori assumono il ruolo di un supereroe in una città moderna , altrove in un’America ispirata da elementi del mondo fantascientifico.

Twilight Heroes è gratuito e dipende da doni di soldi grazie ai suoi giocatori e mecenati.
Questo videogioco richiede solamente una macchina semplice per farsi giocare, quindi è ottimo per giocatori privi di risorse avvanzate. Come la maggior parte di RPG sulla Rete , s’ è basata su combattimenti fra il giocatore e nemici, e la realizzazione di missioni ed inchieste, ecc. Una forma d'interazione fra giocatori s'e' introdotta nella forma d'un'arena dove i giocatori possono combattersi.

(sinopsis)

Ogni giocatore inizia come un uomoessere umano quotidiano che ha trovato un amuleto speciale, (Ing: Talisman), il quale dispone il giocatore di poteri ed abilità straordinari. I tipi di poteri disponibili ai giocatori dipende sulla classe d’eroe scelta dal giocatore. Per esempio, eroi psionici possono sfruttarsi di capacità psichiche, come la telecinesi), mentre un meta-ingenere (Ing: "Gadgeteer" puo’ contare sull'uso di strumenti ingegnosi e sofisticati e ben inventati). Intanto, ci sono 4 tipi di eroe da scegliere. Dopo, supereroi potrebbero incontrare altri talismani da potenze differenti.

Come detto a prima, giocatori possono andare in pattuglia nelle aree urbane della Twilight ed altre zone vicine alla citta’. Nel processo d’una pattuglia, si puo’ contrastare nemici, inclusivi di malfattori quotidiani come ladri o mafiosi, ed anche robot selvaggi oppur alieni estraterresti minacciando la sicurezza mondiale. Questi, una volta sconfitti in combattimento, possono rendere ricompense, nella forma della come la conoscenza, oppure soldi e merce utile. In altri casi, un giocatore puo' incontrare incidenti che possono condizionare il gioco: ad esempio, consentendo ad un'intervista dialla stampa potrebbe incitare alcuni supercattivi per andare in caccia del carattere del giocatore.

La capacita' di eroi per pattugliare in alcune zone di TH e' limitata anche per i mezzi di trasporto. Ad esempio, una bicicletta potrebbe trasportare un giocatore solo da Somerset fino all'Ateneo, mentre esige veicoli sommersibili o equippamenti di SCUBA per esplorare zone sotto l'acqua." Un eroe puo' scegliere uno di circa 30 tipi di veicolo, inclusivi di automezzi e velivoli. Il tempo spesso da un giocatore nel Twilight viene limitato da un sistema di "tempo" nel gioco. Normalmente, ogni "turno" spesso in pattuglia durebbere per 6 minuti. Riflettando la vita vera, eroi iniziano a pattugliare dopo delle 18,00 alla sera ma devono ritirarsi se siano a partire per il lavoro (alle 7 ogni mattino) o troppo esauriti. Tuttavia, gli effeti d'esaurimento possono ritardati consummando di caramelle contenenti del glucosio o bevande ricche di caffeina.
:D

(kisses his Italian-language version of Rise of Nations)
Some terms I am not too acquainted with, such as the Italian required for:

"MMORPG"
"turn-based RPG"

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:55 pm 
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This is further material taken via automated translating of the Malay edition of wikipedia. As expected, it is not perfect Italian and could be improved further by further simplification and removal of text.

I've cut down the section "Reception" to the following:

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Twilight Heroes has been given mixed reviews by many sites before. As much as people have praised it for being "a surprisingly in-depth and complex RPG"(cite English source), others have criticised it for repetitiveness (cite English source) and clumsy creative writing (cite English source) while some parties have perceived it as being similar to Kingdom of Loathing albeit inferior in quality.
It must be noted, however, that these comments were made at a point when the game itself was still in its infancy and are not completely relevant any more, and that the game continues to be developed single-handedly by a single programmer with assistance from dedicated volunteers.
(Ryme, we need a source here; otherwise, the Italian version will be blankoed out of existence)

These remain to be added somewhere:

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 Twilight Heroes, il sito principale (solo in inglese)
 Wiki ufficiale, un'enciclopedia dedicata al Twilight Heroes (solo in inglese)
Quirkz media, il sito web di giochi video.[/quote]

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:25 pm 
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To be completely honest: if I knew how to do it right, my first two attempts to put the thing on the English version of Wikipedia wouldn't have been erased. Wikipedia has its own quirks and customs, and most of what I get out of trying to deal with them is frustration.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:32 pm 
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Ryme wrote:
To be completely honest: if I knew how to do it right, my first two attempts to put the thing on the English version of Wikipedia wouldn't have been erased. Wikipedia has its own quirks and customs, and most of what I get out of trying to deal with them is frustration.


We shall just keep this draft here until we can get it online. My last draft got deleted because it was deemed as "non-original work"; we shall see how this one went. The Malay one seems to have gone up without a hitch.

I think we can originally add this in, and then use Blandsauce to reference ingame material, and then for the English-language material for compression, use external references.

RESOURCES:
http://www.impulsegamer.com/pctwilightheroes.html
http://gamelist.bbgsite.com/io/index/id/230.shtml

We now seem to have a properly working draft, but it's still incomplete. I'm going to post the English version of TH on wikipedia in lieu of the Malaysian one.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:56 am 
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Wiki mods think they're elite, Ryme, don't worry.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:49 pm 
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SunWukong wrote:
I've noticed that someone's beaten me to it as regards to producing a Bahasa Malaysia edition of the wiki article, so I've just taken elements of it and translated it into Italian, and then pared down the text.
We currently have the following draft:
[...]

I'm a native Italian speaker and could help a bit(though I don't have that much time these days, unfortunately).

As for that specific translation: It's a bit...awkard in several parts. I might post a better version here later.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:18 pm 
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Edivad....e' solo un abbozzo....stai tranquillo. So che non e' perfetto ancora; cioe' e' perche' rimane qui.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:00 am 
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Corrupt Shadow wrote:
Wiki mods think they're elite, Ryme, don't worry.


Mods have very little to do with it. Wikipedia is all about editors, and editors would usually back off if someone who seems proficient is keeping an eye on an article. Which I do :)


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