User blog:Auric Drake/Guidelines for contributing

Welcome to the wiki! At the time of writing, this wiki is less than two months old and still very much in its infancy. To grow it further, I need the help of anyone who's willing to contribute. Below are some tips on how to do so.

 Translation advice 

Lust Grimm has no official English translation, sadly. Everyone I know of uses machine translation to play it. For advice on how to install and use the necessary software, the following link is extremely helpful: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/8239-how-to-install-and-run-untranslated-visual-novel-text-hooking-tools/?

But while machine translation has come a long way, its output still isn't at the level that you can just copy and paste it into a wiki. Here's the point where a person needs to intervene by converting the output into proper English.

The good news is that (in my experience) knowledge of Japanese isn't necessary to do the job. More important is having a decent knowledge of English and taking context into account, especially the second of these. Translating between two languages, especially ones as different as Japanese and English, isn't something that can be done properly by just translating small chunks of text at a time. Read the machine translations for everything related to what you're trying to translate. When I wrote up a summary of the game's story, I first played through the entire game (on Easy Mode) to get a basic understanding, then started a new game and played again, this time taking notes of everything related to the plot.

Once you've gotten a rough translation down, read it out aloud to make sure it is coherent and good English. Read the machine translations for other text about the same topic (for example, in the case of a character, other dialogue that they have) to make sure that it fits the context.

 Major character pages 

The sections for these are Appearance, Personality, History, Plot, Abilities and Trivia. To clarify things, History covers everything that's chronologically before the start of the game (i.e. before the scene in which Magruth is sucked into the book), while Plot covers anything during the game.

For major characters that are also fought as enemies (see Fesse for one example), these should also have the information for enemy pages.

 Enemy pages 

These consist of an infobox and the sections Profile, Skills, Strategy.

To add an infobox to a page, use the Infobox option and choose "Infobox: Enemy". The infobox contains the enemy's Level, maximum Energy, Drops, Weaknesses and Resistances, and the Locations that they're found in. All but the last of these can be obtained by scanning the enemy. Note that enemy stats appear to vary depending on where they're encountered. For consistency, I'd suggest using the stats of the enemies in the Succubus House.

The Profile is easy enough, it's the short paragraph of text that appears when you interact with an enemy in the Succubus House or when you use the scan skill during battle.

Skills should include anything an enemy does that has its own header at the top of the screen - essentially, anything that has a proper name. Many of these can be found easily using the request skill in the Succubus House (but note that the names in the request menu can differ from those that appear when the skill is used; in such cases, use the latter name). However, not all skills can be found this way, so it's necessary to actually fight the enemy to get all of them. Somewhat confusingly, certain enemy skills don't have a name despite their importance (see the Mimic page for an example), these should be included, using the closest possible approximation for the name of the skill.

Strategy is obviously subjective. As a minimum, it should include the enemy's weaknesses and resistances and (when applicable) countermeasures for their most dangerous moves (see the Sheep Sisters page for an example).

One thing that isn't on any of the enemy pages is information like their level, Energy, experience and drops. These can be found out easily by using the scan skill. These (along with weaknesses, resistances and the locations an enemy is found in) should ideally be in the same infobox as the main page image (see enemy pages on the Monster Girl Quest wiki for an example of what this looks like). However, I haven't been able to get this working properly. Anyone with a better idea of how to do this is welcome to help. EDIT: never mind, I've figured this part out.

 Location pages 

These have the sections Enemies, Treasures, Services and Gallery. At the top of the page there should also be an image that gives a good idea of what the location looks like.

Enemies is simply a list of what enemies are found in a location. This is obviously unnecessary for locations where none are encountered.

Treasures is a list of all treasures that can be found in a location, split up by the specific area. This is one of the most time-consuming things to add, as it basically requires playing the entire game to find out the contents of evrey chest. If anyone's brave enough to tackle this task, I suggest using Easy Mode to save a lot of time and frustration.

Services is a list of NPCs that provide services to the player. Examples include Record Fairy, Rare Collector Succubus and Flower Doctor.

Gallery is a gallery of images, one for each area in a location.

 Other 

There are two enemy pages that I haven't created yet, as I'm uncertain of the translations for their names. These are "おっぱい妖怪" and "ハンツテテク". Google Translate tells me that the first literally translates to "Breast Youkai" and the second is apparently "Huntsuteku/Hunttechuku"? To provide context, according to their profiles, おっぱい妖怪 has a habit of suffocating children and teenagers with her breasts and her name directly refers to this, while ハンツテテク is described as being mysterious, having the personality of an older sister and often walking around the desert with a swaying gait.

Several other pages have yet to be created, though there are redlinks to them. Examples are Brothers Grimm and Back Cover.

Feel free to share any other ideas you have below. I've found that a great source of inspiration is other wikis, the main I've used being the Monster Girl Quest wiki.