Escalated Announcement Translations

[TeamTMS]

One of the many things I like about CubeCraft is that they take the time to make translations for lots of different languages. They have things like regional channels, in-game translations, article translations (e.g. Rules), etc. However, there are still some things that are not translated, and are only meant to be read in English. One of which is Discord Announcements.

With the new Translator rank coming in, something that can give Translators something else to do is translate announcements on Discord. Before an announcement is made, the Translation Team could be notified of the announcement, giving them enough time to post the translation around the same time as the English announcement is made. The translated announcements would be posted in their designated channels (Español, Nederlands, Arabic, Other Languages. Excluding English), and pinned to the channel, so people can find it easily.
Only the purposeful announcements (not the ones meant for joking purposes) should be translated. At the bottom of every (purposeful) announcement, it should say "Translations for this announcement has been pinned in regional channels" (Yes, I know people in different languages won't know how to read that, but just for those who know a bit of English). For the Other Languages channel, a few other translations could be made for other common languages, such as Chinese, Dutch, Italian, etc.

The same goes for News announcements on the forums, but I might make a different thread about that. Let me know what you think! :)

Spoiler: Example

Example of a translation in Spanish:

Note: The name "Translator" is an example.

 

[Calichin]

Nice idea!
I was thinking, why not just make separate channels for those translated versions?
For example, under the important section of the discord server.
It would look like:
IMPORTANT
Rules
Announcements!
Anuncios
Then the rest of the languages there would be to offer (I only know English and spanish sorry everyone :3)

My reasoning, The point of announcements would be to see a collection of just announcements, having it in the main chat (For example #espanol) would probably cause it to get lost way up in the chat later on, so if you did wanna look back at it. It would take a lot longer rather than having it have its own dedicated section.

 

[TeamTMS]

Nice idea!
I was thinking, why not just make separate channels for those translated versions?
For example, under the important section of the discord server.
It would look like:
IMPORTANT
Rules
Announcements!
Anuncios
Then the rest of the languages there would be to offer (I only know English and spanish sorry everyone :3)

My reasoning, The point of announcements would be to see a collection of just announcements, having it in the main chat (For example #espanol) would probably cause it to get lost way up in the chat later on, so if you did wanna look back at it. It would take a lot longer rather than having it have its own dedicated section.

Hi there, thanks for your reply
I think having lots of different announcement channels would make the server look somewhat unorganised. The reason I think having them in the regional channels would be better is because there aren't a lot of different speaking users on the Discord. While there are some, a lot of them do know how to speak English as well. Therefore there is less of a purpose to having five different announcement channels.
Also, there is a button on the top right corner of the screen in Discord that looks like a pin. From there, you can view every pinned message in the channel you are in. Only administrators (and in this case Translators) can pin messages. So that's an easier way for different speaking users to view translated announcements in the regional channels. :)

 

[Eli]

I actually really like this idea, and it shouldn't be too hard to have these announcements translated quickly since we have big translation teams for Spanish, Dutch and Arabic. Suggestion Escalated!

 

[NotAName]

I really like this idea, simple and useful.
About the forums, we are working on a system to implement the translations, it will be available soon :D

 

[YeaUhm]

Seems like a good idea!