Talk:Guidance for Linguistic Scribes

English wiki admins now create the new translated wiki
My post to the Wizards of the Wiki guild:

Okay, new policy for translated wikis: When a new language is requested, I or another English wiki admin will create the wiki. We'll immediately add a couple of other admins from the English wiki, and also the person who requested the wiki. We'll request that Wikia staff give the new wiki the ability to use the English images - that will be easy since one person will be admin of both wikis and so can approve it from both sides. We should probably also set up the styles sheets ourselves and maybe even the home page (not translated yet of course) - I'll look into exactly what steps we should take when the next wiki needs to be created. Having as us admins will help us make any future adjustments that are needed to the wiki, so the small amount of extra work for us up front is likely to pay off in future. I'm about to adjust Guidance for Linguistic Scribes. Re-edits there or comments here are welcome.

Below is material removed from this page. English wiki admins will use this later when we're creating a new translated wiki. If someone wants to rewrite this as needed and add it somewhere else, that would be fine.

Creating a new language Wikia
To create a wiki you look to the top left of your page, next to the Wikia logo. You will find a "Start a wiki" button. Click it. A dialogue will open that takes you through the 4 simple steps to create a Wiki.

The name of your Wiki should be "Habitica".

It is vital that you choose the right language option from the dropdown menu, otherwise there will be trouble with language linking later.

Once you have created the new Wiki you will be looking at its front page.

Initial Setup
Your first job will be to make the front page look sort of like the original Habitica Wikia front page. This means you have to adjust the Theme, Wordmark, FavIcon, Templates, Color set, Top Menu, Wikia.css (and Common.css) and upload a few pictures that are used on the front page.

Language Linking
For this step you need to contact an admin of the original English Wiki. This is best done in the Wizards of the Wiki guild. The admin will send a request to Wikia staff to link the new language Wikia to the English one.

LadyAlys (talk) 21:26, March 16, 2016 (UTC)