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[Japo]

Originally Posted by bukimi

What about writing new reviews in English, where text is too short, but there are enough screenshots?
Can I submit my review without any pictures?

Sure. We wouldn't know what to do with extra screenshots if the old ones were good.

Also, please note that if you want to replace a review that's in principle only a suggestion for us. If the review is really short or poor you can be quite confident; but you may want to ask us about every particular review to be sure. You can do that on a new personal thread you create on the Offers board.

Lastly, I can start writing some longer reviews right away - should I just post them in "Your reviews" thread? I don't to get my "replacement" reviews lost among reviews of new games.

"Your reviews" is primarily for reviews that don't go on the website, either because there are already reviews for that games, or because they're not about Abandonia games to begin with.

Our submission system is via FTP; I'm sending you a separate PM about it.

[bukimi]

Originally Posted by Japo

you may want to ask us about every particular review to be sure. You can do that on a new personal thread you create on the Offers board.

Of course I would like to have my reviews pre-read and checked if they are good enough before they got posted directly on site

Therefore, I should post them in "Offers" thread instead of using FTP or I should do both at the same time?
I want to start with reviews tagged in THIS THREAD. I can see that most of them are still very short.

[Japo]

I meant even before writing your review, you can ask us if the one on site is up for replacement or not. Checking it after it's submitted is a separate process, and there's never any problem here.

If you choose stub reviews from that thread it should be safe (unless they had been already replaced and the thread wasn't updated about it); but there may be a few more reviews that could use a replacement. What I meant is that this thread is sorely out of date.

The FTP is our legacy system, upload there anyway. You can post the reviews on your offers thread too if you want.

[bukimi]

One more thing (last one, I hope): I can see there are reviews in different languages.
When I switch language to Polish, usually I can find the same review (length, text), which was only accurately translated.

Can I write both in English and in Polish? It should be easier than having to find somebody else to translate my review in English. Then, I think of putting different language versions in different files - is it a good idea?

PS. Text reviews should be in: .txt .doc .docx .pdf ?

[Japo]

Sure you can submit a translation for your own review, specially in your mother tongue. We'll be grateful. I'm fast-tracking your translator application here :P

Use RTF format (with Office or Wordpad) if you want to format some words; or plain text is always good of course.

[bukimi]

Heh, fogrot about good old .rtf

One more thing, reviews in Polish seem to have national letters missing.
Instead of them, I can see "?" - I'm not familiar with coding issues, but it's not very readable that way. Will it be fixed anyhow?
Example here: http://www.abandonia.com/pl/games/98...ne+Ranger.html

[Japo]

What a disaster. I see there are a lot of them, we can't fix them one by one. Some are OK (example), but I don't know if they're even a minority. I'll se what can be done.

[bukimi]

If it would need re-reading, re-writing and then re-uploading, I can help.

Yet, I think it's more a matter of proper uploading text from file to site server.

[Japo]

In the current implementation of the website reviews are entered as text into an admin web form, not uploaded as separate files. We don't have access below that. A lot of reviews are from earlier versions of the website, and it's possible that the "upgrade" caused problems (it did elsewhere).

If you want to fix some one by one, if you give me a readable file or post on the forums, I guess I can make sure it isn't borked.

[bukimi]

Oh, I can see I already have a "translator" badge. Still, I don't know where to start. Should I just check which reviews are missing in my language and upload them or there is some list of tasks to do somewhere?

PS. I sent you PM - credentials to FTP server you gave me don't work for me