I'm aiming to be a little more consistent in adding words, maybe not daily but no more month long gaps. It's a fairly simple process, so I should be able to keep it up.
Here are the steps I take:
- Choose a word to add
- Initially I went through the evergreen keywords at mtg.fandom.com
- Currently I'm going through the card types
- Find an appropriate card to use as an example on Scryfall
- For the keywords I tried to find the first card which existed which had the word, no other abilities, and had both English and Japanese versions
- For the card types I'm just using the first card I think of
- Use the Japanese text at Scryfall for my translation
- Download the English and Japanese card images (I could probably automate this to automatically pull in the cards without me needing to download the images first)
- Look up if the word exists at jisho.org. If it does, the site will automatically generate the dictionary link
- If I couldn't find the word, look it up at mtgwiki.com
- Use one of the sites above to find the hiragana or katakana
- Enter all of the above, plus my attempt at romanisation into the site
- On publish, page is added to the site and the post automatically gets added to https://twitter.com/japanesemtg