We need your help translating the Stack Exchange engine to Japanese!

Question

You may have heard that we recently localized the Stack Exchange engine to Portuguese and the site has been doing quite well! We're now starting the work for a few other target languages, and one of them is Japanese.

Sidenote: this doesn't mean that this site will be localized to Japanese (unless the community wants it) -- we're just asking for help since you're our resident Japanese-language experts.

What we need your help with:

We're working with professional translators who are great at what they do, but don't necessarily know all the quirks of Stack Exchange. They've taken a stab at translating all of the Stack Exchange special terms (like "reputation" or "bounty") but want us to look over it and see if they got the sense right. That's where you come in: we'd like you (if you can) to look over their translations of these ~30 terms and tell us if they got them right.

So, I've appended the full list to the bottom here. If you see something that looks wrong, please post one suggested correction per answer. If others agree, they can vote up your answer or comment on it -- not the best system, but we'll see how it goes.

badge              バッジ           Besides gaining reputation with your questions and answers, you receive badges for being especially helpful. Badges appear on your profile page, flair, and your posts.
bounty             報酬             A bounty is a reputation reward you can put on a question to get it more attention for exactly one week. 
Bronze Badge       ブロンズ バッジ   These badges are awarded for participating in **non community-wiki questions** with particular tags.
candidate          候補者
community          コミュニティ
community moderator            コミュニティ モデレーター      Please participate in the moderator elections by voting, and perhaps even by nominating yourself to be a community moderator!
community moderator election   コミュニティ モデレーター選挙   There are no active community moderator elections at the moment.
excerpt            抜粋
favicon            ファビコン
flag               フラグを設定する       Casting any vote type or flagging these posts will cause them to be removed from the list.
Gold Tag Badge     ゴールド タグ バッジ   Gold badges recognize important contributions from members of the community. They are rarely awarded.
Help Center        ヘルプ センター
nomination         推薦                  The primary is not binding; nominees may withdraw at their discretion at any point during the nomination phase.
peer review        ピア レビュー          Note that if you have less than $rep$ reputation, your tag wiki will be peer reviewed before it is published.
pin                ピン留めする           Pinning a post will move it to the top of the questions. To move an already pinned item to the top, remove the pin and then add it again.
post               投稿                  Find links or images in posts
privilege          特権 
reputation         評判                  Gain more privileges by increasing your reputation (points you receive from your fellow users for posting helpful questions and answers)
review             レビュー              recent reviews
review badge       レビュー バッジ       Review badges are awarded once per review queue.
revision           リビジョン            show/hide this revision's text
score              スコア                You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
Silver Tag Badge   シルバー タグ バッジ   Silver badges are less common than bronze ones. You'll need to plan your strategy to get one of these.
stats              統計                  stats for the top 50 site users
tag                タグ                  A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions
user flair         ユーザー フレア        It's a piece of valuable flairtm you can place on any website to show off your user profile!
vote down          反対投票する          vote down this synonym
vote up            賛成投票する          The best answers are voted up and rise to the top

Thank you so much for your help!

Answer 1

The spaces in various terms seem unusual to me. Middle dots (or nothing) could work instead.

Instead of ヘルプ　センター, you could write ヘルプセンター with nothing in between.

(That's how it's written on Twitter, Excite, Facebook, PayPal, and Yahoo! Japan.)

Answer 2

For "flag", the translators gave "フラグを設定する" but this meta post gives "通報". Vote up if 通報 is a better translation, or suggest your own.

Answer 3

flair / バナー

I think バナー is the widely accepted term for a block of screen space to show off your identity.

Example: Facebook uses バナー for embeddable "badges":

バナーは、他のウェブサイトでFacebookタイムライン、写真、またはFacebookページをシェアするために作成するボックスです。 [source]

Example: pixiv's プロフィールバナー:

[source]

Answer 4

As per @Yang Muye's comment, 知恵袋 uses "お礼" instead of "報酬" or "賞金" to pretty much mean "bounty".

I think a more literal translation might be "reward given in thanks for something" in this context, and it isn't restricted to money or goods and can be as a spoken "thanks" etc for something as well, which may make it more appropriate.

Please upvote if you'd prefer it to the other terms for "bounty".

Answer 5

For "gold" "silver" "bronze", I think "金" "銀" "銅" are concise.

Answer 6

For "badge", 章 seems like it would be a little less clunky than バッジ, especially in compounds such as ゴールド章, シルバー章, and ブロンズ章.

Answer 7

For reputation, I used "信用度" for "amount of trust" in the localization script. I thought this could be a good translation, as quoting https://japanese.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation:

Reputation is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you...

Answer 8

How about 経験値 for reputation? While I realize "experience points" may not be a 1-1 correspondence, in a sense it's actually not that far off when you think about it.

Answer 9

The spaces in various terms seem unusual to me. Middle dots (or nothing) could work instead.

Instead of コミュニティ モデレーター, you could write コミュニティ・モデレーター.

Answer 10

reputation / 徳ポイント

I have self-doubts about this translation — too cutesy, but posting nevertheless to put forth all thinkable options. UO and Ryuu ga gotoku ishin uses "徳" as the name of a karma system.

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I think it's important to get this translation right: it's going to define the world view of SE network. The translation should:

• be immediately apparent that it's a currency within the site: earned and spent through your actions
  → use ~値, ~ポイント, ~コイン, ~スタンプ
• be natural within the contexts it's going to be used
  → translate the help text first and try to fit the candidate terms
• preferably, versatile enough to be able to generate various compound forms
  → if there are equally fine alternatives, this can be (one of) the deciding factor(s)

Answer 11

I'm not so sure it fits the bill, but David asked me to post my thought of 管理人 for moderator as a formal suggestion. Personally I think that implies someone with much more authority than a standard moderator (more along the lines of an administrator).

Answer 12

For "reputation", the translators gave "評判" but this meta post gives "名声". Vote up if 名声 is a better translation, or suggest your own.

Answer 13

vote down          反対投票する          vote down this synonym
vote up            賛成投票する          The best answers are voted up and rise to the top

Are up votes and down votes supposed to be used for showing agreement and disagreement?

If we want to keep them as neutral as possible, we can use katakana

vote up            ボート・アップ
vote down          ボート・ダウン

useful             役に立った（と評価する）
useless            役に立たない（と評価する）

Answer 14

For "flair", I thought "フレア" in Japanese was typically used like "solar flare"/"lens flare" etc when I wrote my translation script.

In the script, I wasn't totally sure what "flair" meant in English, but assuming it meant "something that shows your (Stack Exchange) achievements" I went with "自己宣伝" ("self-advertisement"/"self-publicity").

(p.s. there might be a better term for this, so if you know one please downvote this and write your own suggestion as a separate answer.)

Answer 15

For "bounty", the translators gave "報酬" but this meta post gives "賞金". Vote up if 賞金 is a better translation, or suggest your own.