Query results: Translations

It’s time we report on the exciting things taking place in our translation system.

The first good news is that the renovation of both the Catalan and German translations is almost complete.
GNULinux.cat will show its refreshed looks and contents in a matter of days; Over 40% of its text has been labelled “fuzzy” by translators, so proof-readers are encouraged to come by.
LinuxFuerAlle.de is 92% complete: almost there, wir brauchen mal Hilfe ;-).

A little behind we find the Russian (95% complete) and Arabic (81%) translations. These are shorter editions of GetGNULinux.org (called trimmed). The Arabic version is without doubt the most striking: right-to-left text styling, the core of which is complete, has got us rather proud =) Not even Mozilla has a website in Arabic.
A number of translations, most notably Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, and Chinese, are also progressing.

Finally, the best news is for the end. The Vietnamese translation —last kid in the block, but first to the finish line— is receiving some final touches. LayduocLinux.org will be out in the public in a matter of days, thanks to the work of only one person - thank you, Clytie! We will happily make an official announcement once the website is out.

No advanced knowledge is required in order to participate in translations. Bringing the GetGNULinux.org goodness to thousand more people daily is only one click away. =)

Since Jabber rooms are not as widely used as IRC channels and this causes that some people have trouble to access them, we have created an IRC channel at Freenode.net for our translators, which replaces our Jabber room.

The new channel is #glm-l18n.

We are well into the process of migrating LinuxFuerAlle.de and GnuLinux.cat to our on-line translation system, powered by Pootle and Poliglota.

There are two objectives to the migration:

• The visual appearance will be greatly improved, to match that of the English version, French and Castilian translations;
• Subsequent editing and updating of the text will be made much easier (enabling anyone, for example, to correct a sentence).

If you speak German or Catalan, please consider giving us a hand. Most of the copy-pasting work has been done; we now need proof-reading (the strings labled “fuzzy”), and translating of the recently-modified text.

Translating is easy. Everything is done on-line, no special technical skill is required. You can head straight to the web interface, or read more about translating for GNU/Linux Matters. Don’t hesitate to get in touch for any concern you may have.