Translators/Translations Wanted
We’ve been attracting a lot of international attention with WPhone, including some gracious translation efforts (Google translation) to translate the plugin’s strings into Russian by the Lecactus folks. (It also appears as if these folks have given a go at making WPhone work in Japanese/UTF8. Google’s attempt at translating the page is available here.)
What we would really love would be for some similarly gifted and motivated hackers to contribute their linguistic skills to translating WPhone into other languages, particularly German, Spanish and Polish, as those seem to be some of the more common languages that I see showing up in trackbacks and WPhone-related Google Blog Searches.
If you’re interested in lending a hand, getting your translations distributed with the official plugin and getting credit from us, please leave a comment on this post or over in the forums.
Thanks!
EDIT:
If you’d like to help, check out the WordPress Codex for details on how to use the localization technology and then have at the included localization file that comes with WPhone.
And as always, we’re looking for feedback on the plugin, so if you find something that isn’t easy to translate into your language, let us know and we’ll try to make it better!
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Hi
I would like to help with spanish translation.
oreixa: go ahead and grab the translation file included with the plugin and have at it. See this link for details: http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#Translation_Tools
It applies to our plugin.
I am writing the italian translation…
Doug, you can find here my italian localisation (files .mo and .po):
WPhone in italiano
could get the French version done asap…
Since I like it, I would try the German version.
@chris: the french version is already bundled in version 1.4.1, but do feel free to modify it and submit updates, or takeover its maintenance if you are interested. I translated it myself (was born in France), but I’ll readily admit I’m far from the best translator, especially when it comes to tech stuff. I did base my translation on the fr_FR version of WP though.
@others: thank you all for your potential help. It is greatly appreciated, and will make WPhone that much better. :)
Hi
I’d like to translate it into German.
@Jens: Wir könnten uns die Arbeit auch teilen, oder die Arbeit vom anderen jeweils gegenlesen.
Hi
here is my German translation:
WPhone German localization
@chris: I had not named the French files properly in 1.4.1. It’ll be fixed in 1.4.2. You can rename them to wphone-fr_FR to make them work.
@lucacicca and @Valentina: we’ve added your contributions to the dev branch. Please do let us know if it’s not working, if you have a chance to try.
http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wphone/branches/dev/
Thanks! :-)
So, how do I switch the language of this plugin?
Do I have to get a localized wordpress version?
@DMB: yes, we tag along with and extend the standard WordPress localization functionality.
See http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language
See also: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language
Hey man, if you want, send me the codes! I am brazilian and I can help with to translate to brazilian portuguese!
Cheers
Fábio Silva
Wordpress user, Brazil
Hello Fábio
Since WPhone is an Open Source project, you can find the code there:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wphone
And you can find free tools to do it at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#Translation_Tools
If you need turkish let me know!
@ufuk polat: We want any language. :-)
And we don’t have yours, so we’ll be happy to include it in.
I’m starting the Portuguese-portuguese (it’s different from the brazilian portuguese) translation ;)
Hi… Mail me when you need a translation for Brazilian Portuguese.
@Nastase: thanks! :-)
Hi!
I’m back… I read this, and i have a little question:
I need only translate the localization file?
Example: I have to translate only “template.po” and after rename it to wphone-pt_BR.mo and convert this to wphone-pt_BR.po? I don’t have to translate other files at the folder “includes”?
Hi! I’m back.
I have one question: I only have to create one localization file with the portuguese brazilian language?
@Bruno: yes indeed, it’s just the one file (template.po). It contains all the strings we use in the plugin.
Hi,
I can do translation to Polish.
excellent plugin!
here is my Chinese(simplified) translation: Chinese(Simplified) pack
I wish to help you for the translation on the Romanian language.
Great to see so many languages here.
At work we cover 170 + languages and if you need any more let me know.
If you need an Italian translator, then I am available.
Sincerely
Giovanni
Hi, i want to help you. I’ll translate it to Indonesian.
i mite translate it to urdu or arabic whichever is suitable for you