Translation Review Tool

Alexander01998

I've created a custom tool to help me review pending Wurst Client translations. Not sure if anyone else will find this useful, but I'm quite proud of it.

Features:

Google-translates the translation back to English, so I can review translations in languages I don't speak. (I used to do this manually for every string, so this is a huge time saver.)
Uses ChatGPT to quickly highlight strings where the reverse translation differs from the original. (Not perfect, but it helps.)
Also uses ChatGPT to find mentions of Minecraft blocks, items, etc. Then it checks those against Minecraft's official translations to find inconsistencies. (I used to not do this at all since it would take too long to do manually.)
Checks for common mistakes like untranslated strings, miscapitalized Wurst features, and issues with the color codes.
Highlights names and color codes so it's easier to spot issues with them.
Includes a "bookmark" (red outline around a row) to help me keep track of where I left off. This can be moved up and down with the arrow keys and keeps its position when the page is reloaded.
Also includes shortcuts to quickly open Google Translate (G) or DeepL (D) for any selected text.

Screenshot:

A screenshot of TranslationHelper analyzing an early draft of the Korean translations in Wurst-Imperium/Wurst7#872

Example analysis: https://wurst-imperium.github.io/TranslationHelper/872_ko_kr

Source code: https://github.com/Wurst-Imperium/TranslationHelper

Cyclopropinon

cool!

is there a way how i could use it for my own projects? (minecraft mods, or even sth entirely else)

Alexander01998

@Cyclopropinon Currently it's hardcoded to Wurst, but in theory the tool could work for any Minecraft mod.

To use it for your own projects in its current form, you would need to place your pending translations in pending.json and the original in cache/lang/wurst/en_us.json. I think if you give it a wiki-data.json file that just says {}, then that should stop it from analyzing the spelling of Wurst hacks (or you can just give it a real wiki data file and ignore that part of the analysis).

Cyclopropinon

ok, sounds interesting!
(i dont have anything i could use it now, but very interesting concept!)

Your_average_minecrafter

i don't get it do you need the whole English dictionary translated (for chat) or just the wurst modules?

Alexander01998

Hey there, Your_average_minecrafter!

This tool is specifically for reviewing translations of the Wurst Client, including the descriptions of its various modules, their settings, the syntax and error messages of .commands, and other in-game text. I apologize if that wasn't clear.

I've needed a tool like this for a while, since it's too much text to review by just looking at the raw JSON data, and becasue existing tools like Crowdin didn't really adapt to my workflow.

However, I'm not sure what you mean by "the whole English dictionary for chat". I think it might not be obvious at first how much in-game text the Wurst Client actually contains, but looking at the sample analysis linked above should give you an idea of how much work goes into these translations.

(And keep in mind that this is with most of the in-game text not yet supporting translation. The langfiles will be several times bigger once all of the settings and commands are translatable. I'm honestly not sure if this tool will be enough to keep up with that.)

JAXPLE

XD Interesting code
I think great too