About the channel

Small introduction

#Translate channel was founded by Silvered in 7th of January 2007, and got through a lot of changes to get here.

It was started unofficially with Undernet volunteers and a small team with a lot of desires.On 24th of August 2007 Simba (Shaun Okeefe) Undernet User Comittee Co-ordinator proposed that the channel should join the Undernet User Committee as an official UUC project, thing that we accepted.

Silvered passed the management of the channel on 19th of November to |EL_REY| and he administrates it since then. Details on that pass of administration can be viewed by following the news page

#Translate is a channel that deals with translations from different languages into English and vice versa. You can join the channel by using the webchat.

We allow all languages from the bot’s list to be spoken in the channel, even while chatting. No rubbish talk, website advertisements, mass messages, mp3 announcements, mass invites or insulting will be tolerated. Colors are allowed but limited.

When we started, we had about 15 people helping in 7 different languages and extended to 23 languages, and over 75 people helping with translations daily.

For a complete list of languages you may type !languages after you join the channel. Consult !help to see the complete bot commands.

For a complete list of who can help you at your translation (notice that those person might not be online or “at the keyboard”) when you’re requesting help please consult memberlist.

Channel concepts

The first priority of our channel is to make translations from different languages. Users who come in the channel and ask for our help are the most important for us.
We don’t translate any kinds of documents, or big files. There are some automatic translations you can find over google.com (language tools) or babelfish.com (we can help you correcting your text from mistakes afterwards).

If nobody from your language is online at the time you ask for help, post at the forum and an op will answer to you as soon as he or she gets online.

The second priority is having fun, entertaining yourself, but not using bad words, being ironic, or rude. Remember that it’s an interethnical channel, we have more than 80 users all the time from all over the world, from every country you can think of, and can find users on Undernet from. Racism is not allowed, insulting is crime. Also, using public away messages will just get you banned because you may bother someone. Act like you would like people to act to you too.

We chat when we are bored, share jokes, but we keep the netiquette alive. If you think someone abused you, or a specified ban was given unfair, contact the administration, and explain the problem as clear as possible.

Don’t take the revenge in hands try annoying someone, or try flooding.

Don’t ask for favours. Some of the ops work in well-known Undernet help channels like #nastrand, #usernames, #arlington etc. Do not ask for username unsuspend, reop or any other stuff. Do not message anyone before you ask for their permission.

Remember. We translate. We don’t assist with general help.

There are dozens of channels that do what we don’t and not one does what we do (Platon *G*)