The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is asking native speakers to help translate almalinux.org. In an October 28 blog post, board chair benny Vasquez explained how site translations work, thanked long-time translators and listed the languages that need the most help.
How it works
Almost all shared site text (navigation, buttons, page sections, but not blog posts) lives in translation files in the website’s GitHub repository. Contributors translate those strings in Weblate, an open source, browser-based translation platform, so no Git, Hugo or coding skills are needed. Weblate periodically bundles new translations into a pull request, which a member of the Promo SIG reviews and merges, usually within a day or two.
The project asks people to translate only into a language they speak natively, noting that machine translation usually reads poorly to native speakers, and to suggest improvements to existing strings too.
Where things stand
As of October 28, the site has 1,121 strings and translators working in more than 30 languages.
- Nearly complete: Swedish and Ukrainian (100%), Indonesian and Russian (99%), Kazakh (98%) and Simplified Chinese (97%).
- Halfway or more: Spanish (78%), Tamil (65%), Portuguese (52%) and French (50%).
- Need help: German and Japanese (49%), Brazilian Portuguese (47%), Italian (39%) and Arabic (37%), plus many smaller languages. Danish, Estonian and Esperanto haven’t been started, and Swahili was just added.
To get involved, create a Weblate account, open the AlmaLinux project and pick your language. Questions can go to the Promo SIG channel on AlmaLinux chat or promo-sig@almalinux.org.
Source: AlmaLinux blog.