User:3tusk

Pre-intro
"Never try translate "" into Chinese - because it has been a meme for years. Just don't try that. Unless one day we do have a similar meme in Chinese. Or there is a proper translation for the name itself."

- 3TUSK

"A "miracle" is something like the end the great localization purge."

- 3TUSK

"Every time a wiki editor finishes documenting a mod, the mod author creates new content... happened with GregTech, Project Red, Immersive Engineering.."

- Xbony2

That is probably the nightmare for every wiki editor. Let's do our best to crush the nightmare.

Self-intro
Hey there. I am 3tusk, an ordinary Minecraft player, to be specific, modded Minecraft mods for most time.

In real life I am a college freshman, major in computer science. Often suffering putting off things and forget them until due dates come. Beside academic stuff and Minecraft, I self-study Java, Lua and Kotlin. Usually I consider it as the influence of Minecraft.

For those who may interest, 3tusk is the abbreviation for  Urey.S.Knowledge, where 'Urey' is my ex-English name IRL.

It is true that Urey sounds like a Russian name, but its pronunciation resembles my real Chinese name somehow. Whatsoever.

I usually capitalize my id because it is somehow acronym. That said, I prefer to use 3TUSK.

I used to do these things:
 * write text-based tutorial in Simplified Chinese and post on www.mcbbs.net, a Chinese Minecraft forum. I stopped because mod updates fast.
 * convince people to play ic2 and gregtech and do not touch magic mods like thaumcraft and ars magica . I stopped because that only happened in 1.5.2, the end of golden age as I believe.
 * Make modpack on my own and play it. But now I am using Skyexchange, a pack on curseforge.

Currently I am:
 * Study. Many times, I feel lost. When I feel lost, I sometimes tell myself, "everything will be fine".
 * Work as a mod localizer
 * Working on localization support for mods. A lot of them. Especially:
 * Any mod that presents in BTM
 * maintaing a port of FrogCraft.
 * Creating my modpack series. Being paralyzed by balance drama.
 * Challenge accepted: translate more than 80% of translatable things here into Simplified Chinese!

Multilingual?

 * Native Chinese speaker, simplified variant. Also can read the traditional one, but cannot write. What a pity.
 * I started to learn English since I was a small kid. And I screwed up with TOEFL multiple times And now I am confident with it.
 * Salvete! I started to touch Latin since late 2015 because I met some new friends who are interested in linguistics. Totally accidental. Still struggling with Wheelock.
 * And some modders use anime reference. Which is annoying beacuse I have zero knowledge on Japanese.

Things that consider as stable

 * Documentation
 * AcademyCraft
 * CustomSteve
 * Doc. Translation
 * IC2 Nuclear Control
 * Avaritia
 * Advanced Genetics
 * GregTech 5
 * Railcraft
 * Buildcraft
 * Arcane Scrolls

Which version of translation do you use and why?
Good question. For now I always search these following sites for translation:
 * MCBBS, one of the biggest online Minecraft-themed forums in China. Influential in Chinese Minecraft community.
 * MCMOD百科 (lit. M(ine)C(raft) MOD Encyclopaedia), an online encyclopaedia only for Minecraft Mods. Saying "encyclopaedia" means that it is NOT a wiki site. It isn't. And I mean the real McCoy. Influential in the Chinese modded Minecraft community. Use CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 as license for most contents.
 * GitHub. No need to explain.

If no result found... I probably choose to submit a brandy new translation. i.e. make one on my own, submit, and use that. Monopoly

Also, welcome to debate on translation of certain entry/entries if you are native Chinese speaker or you are confident with your Chinese level. I believe this community needs more input on that.

Debatable entry
I think this should be a new page, but for now I will simply put it here. Anyhow, here are list of word/phrase/sentence (plural applicable) that have debate on their translation. It will not be complete in the foreseeable future. Inputs are always welcome.
 * Desh (GregTech 5)
 * Duranium (GregTech 5)
 * Extremely Primordial Pearl (Avaritia)
 * Midasium (Metallurgy 4)
 * Naquadah (GregTech 5)
 * Ultimet (GregTech 5)
 * Will (Blood Magic)

TODO

 * A Navbox for ChromatiCraft
 * Keep eyes on GregTech 6 documentation & its translation
 * Translation:
 * Steve's Carts
 * Natura
 * Ztones
 * ArmorPlus

Contact?
Now I am not be as crazy about social media as of I used to be. Anyhow here is a list.
 * GitHub.
 * My blog. And yes it is empty currently.
 * IRC.
 * For now I only show up in #FTB-Wiki and #BTM as "TriTUSK". Nickname cannot start with number, forcing me use prefix "tri-".

Subpage(s)

 * User:3tusk/Sandbox/CustomSteve Now CustomSteve
 * User:3tusk/Sandbox/Navbox ChromatiCraft

Something for Chinese translator from the future

 * Be faithful.
 * Replace  with   if you want to save couple of seconds;
 * If available, use existed, commonly agreed translation;
 * That said, if you wanna translate something about a mod, look up on Github/BitBucket/etc. or just unzip the jar file, to see if there is a file named.
 * Be patient.
 * Use some kind of guideline.
 * What's next?