Contributing translations #

This page is for native speakers who want Exponential in their language. Translations reach every user of that language, often people who would never read an English manual.

Where translations live #

• The administration's messages are in share/translations/<locale>/translation.ts, one file per language (for example ger-DE, fre-FR, esl-ES, ukr-UA, heb-IL).
• doc/eng-us/languages.md lists the locales, the administration translations and how complete each one is; the help page Languages explains languages for editors and administrators.
• Extensions carry their own translations in their own translations/ directories.

How to translate #

1. Pick a language and check its completeness in doc/eng-us/languages.md.
2. Fork the repository and open the language's translation.ts.
3. Translate the messages that are untranslated or marked unfinished. Keep placeholders such as %1 exactly as they are.
4. Test: switch the administration to your language and look at the screens you translated.
5. Commit with a subject such as Updated: German translation of the help dashboard and open a pull request (Contributing code has the workflow and the manifest rule).

Quality #

• Use the terms the rest of the translation already uses; consistency matters more than elegance.
• Ask a second native speaker to review before you submit.
• Do not machine-translate without review.
• Product names stay as they are: Exponential, 7x, the Exponential Foundation.

Right-to-left languages #

The administration supports dir="rtl" for right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew (Languages). When you translate one, check the layout of the screens, not only the words.

Translating the documentation #

Help pages are free documentation under the GFDL 1.3 or later, so you may translate them (Free documentation). Agree with the maintainers in an issue how translated pages are organized before you translate many pages.

Related pages #

• Languages
• Contributing documentation
• Contributing code
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.