General guidelines

About the job:

Team Eolo's priority is to translate the main pages of Nausicaa.net, with emphasis on those regarding Mononoke Hime - to be released soon, and Kiki's Delivery Service - to be broadcast on the US television this spring.

Sequence (suggested priority order):

main page;

"Team Ghiblink" page;

Mononoke Hime page;

Kiki page;

F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Questions) pages;

films pages.

Later on, Team Eolo will also be responsible for:

translate each update ASAP (as soon as possible);
deal with non-English e-mails.

About the structure of the new sites:

It has not yet been decided how the files will be archived. The following topics are open to discussion.

every file will be stored on Nausicaa.net;

as the server is capable of reading the browser's language setting, we could use standardized country codes: [file].html.[code]. For instance:

miyazaki.html.fr <--- French
miyazaki.html.jp <--- Japanese
miyazaki.html.pt <--- Portuguese

as it may prove difficult to work with files named *.html[code], chances are it would be better to create subdirectories for each version, while keeping the imeges branch intact.

* due to the ease of downloading browsers directly from the developer, many people might be surfing the Internet unaware of this feature, which could a problem.

About e-mails:

it is suggested that the address ghiblink@nausicaa.net have language-specific variants, e.g. ghiblink-[code]@nausicaa.net, which would make it possible for more than one person to answer non-English e-mails.

the addresses admin@nausicaa.net, michj@nausicaa.net (Michael Johnson, Team Ghiblink leader) and asbel@nausicaa.net (Jeremy Blackman, sysadmin) won't be needed in the translated pages (except for the Team Ghiblink page), allowing all messages to be sent to ghiblink-[code]@nausicaa.net or eolo@nausicaa.net;

messages concerning administrative matters should be translated and then sent to admin@nausicaa.net.

About translation - points of advice:

Beware the false cognates. Despite our knowledge of a given foreign language, there's always the risk of coming across a word which is written almost the same way a word in our own language is, albeit with a different meaning.;

Trust your dictionary. Even if one has a high level English, good quality translation demands reliable sources. However, don't rely too much on it - forgetting to use your sense. In other words...

Avoid literal translation. Even if the translated terms are correctly written, the resulting expression may not make any sense to the reader;

Beware the special characters. The browsers out there may not be able to view accented letter or other symbols. In order to make it possible, we shall use a standardized encoding (unless you don't use NotePad, WordPad or another plain-text editor). The special characters list includes: ¡, à, é, ï, ô, ñ, ß, and many more.

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