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Interface Translation

This article explains how you can help us translate the website interface into other languages.

Accessing the translation platform

We use a platform called Transifex to manage the translations of the website. Here's what you have to do in order to join the translators team:

  1. Go to this page https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/tatoeba_website/.
  2. If you do not have an account on Transifex: click on "Help translate Tatoeba website" and create your account.
  3. If you do have an account: log in, choose the language(s) in which you would like to translate and apply to be a translator.
  4. You have to wait for your application to be accepted.

Once you have been accepted as a translator, here's how you can access the list of strings to translate.

  1. From your dashboard: How to go to the Transifex translation page 1/3

  2. Then select the "default.pot" resource: How to go to the Transifex translation page 2/3

  3. Select "Untranslated" strings: How to go to the Transifex translation page 3/3

If you need to learn more about Transifex, you can read their documentation: http://docs.transifex.com/.

Translating strings

A "string" is the basic unit of translatable content. It may contain part of a sentence, one sentence, or more sentences.

Some strings include strange words like %s or %1$s. These words acts as placeholders that are replaced by actual words. For instance, in the string "%s's sentences", the %s part is replaced by the name of a user, which produces something like "trang's sentences". Therefore, when translating such sentences, you need to keep the %s part inside your translation.

Other placeholders include: %d (replaces a number), %1$s, %2$s, %3$s and so on, :count: (replaces the number of results in a results page).

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