Community Translation Project

This page contains links to the information pages of various Community Translation Projects that are currently available.

• To join in any of the projects on this page, please read the project information and sign up HERE

Terms and Conditions regulating Community Translation project can be found here

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

To join in, please, sign up HERE

• Currently in the works in the Brazilian Portuguese Web Localization component: XStreet localization tasks: 2nd loc cycle, QA, 3rd loc cycle.
• In Viewer localization, we finished loc cycle 2 and are getting ready to conduct Localization QA in our Localization Central Island.
• See Top Contributors Here!

CHINESE

• Thanks to our volunteer localizers Geneko Nemeth and Ken March, our 1.22 viewer is now available in Simplified Chinese.
• We are currently trying to finalize loc cycle 1 for 1.23 viewer.
• See Top Contributors Here!
• Big thank you to our residents for helping us translate, edit and QA the Registration Area

CZECH

• Czech translations were done by Jarek Dejavu and will be integrating in our next version of the viewer. CT-122
• See Top Contributors Here!

DANISH

Danish Viewer Localization Project is on the 1st loc cycle of 1.23. We hope to wrap up translation this week so we can start bug fixing next week and be in top form for RC3. Thanks, Ann and Flemming!

• Danish Glossary now available! Big thanks to Flemming for this!
• See the top contributors HERE!

To join in, please, sign up HERE

DUTCH

Thank you to all our Dutch localizers for translating, editing, testing and bug-fixing the Dutch Registration area. Dutch_Viewer_Localization_Project is kicking off right now that our volunteer translators have worked hard and collaboratively to produce the Dutch Second Life Glossary. As you can see, we are translating the entire viewer. The files are divided in 6 JIRA tickets and are eagerly awaiting your attention.

• To join in, please, sign up HERE
• See the top contributors to this project HERE!

FRENCH

There are 4 components to the French Community Translation projects:

• Translation of Knowledge Base Articles: We have already around 80 KBs translated into French! A big thank you to the French community translators for this amazing effort! Let's keep going! You will also see that our residents have been making some excellent instructional videos currently available in French on YouTube and soon to be integrated into the French KB.
• French Articles.
• French web.
• Viewer Strings.

To join in the Community Translations project, please, sign up HERE

French localizers meet every Thursday between 12 pm and 1 pm SL time at this location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Borrowdale/119/211/37

• See the top contributors HERE!

GERMAN

German KB Translation Project was the pilot of Linden Lab Community Translation project just mere 5 months ago! Not only has the Community Translations Project grown, but so has the German Knowledge Base. And, to the joy of all of our awesome German volunteers, the Knowledge Base is moving to a wiki format, following wild success of the Japanese and French KB.

• Thank you to everyone who has been contributing to the refinement of the German viewer terminologyCT-91
• Community Standards and System Requirements web page translations have been contributed by the Residents. Thank you!!!
• Currently live project is also German Viewer 1.23 truncation testing. Please, join in the effort on the Localization Central Island.

To join in the Community Translations project, please, sign up HERE

• See the top contributors HERE!

German Linguists' office hours is held Mondays between 12 and 1 p. SL time in Borrowdale: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Borrowdale/116/217/37.

HUNGARIAN

• Hungarian localization led by the amazing Princess Niven has just completed the 2nd loc cycle for 1.23. Truncation fixing is starting this week.
• See Top Contributors Here!

ITALIAN

• After our brilliant Italian translators spent 2 months collaborating on the Italian glossary CT-126, they have been hard at work through 2 loc cycles on Viewer 1.23 - the first viewer to contain Italian!!!! W00T!
• Our amazing volunteers are now working hard on testing the localization on Localization Central Island. In this effort, they are collaborating with a wider Italian community.
• I would also like to thank our wonderful Italian volunteers for the help around Registration pages.

To join in, please, sign up HERE

• See Top Contributors Here!

JAPANESE

Thank you Japanese community translators for contributing to the Japanese KB translation project!

• To learn more about it, please check Project Information!
• Japanese top contributors are announced Here!
• If you're interested in joining the project to make the SL experiences better for Japanese users, please SIGN UP!

POLISH

• Giant thanks to our Polish community for taking the initiative to translate the 1.22 viewer fully into Polish (currently available). After finishing both loc cycles, our Polish volunteers are now testing and bug fixing the Polish version of 1.23.
• See Top Contributors Here!

RUSSIAN / UKRAINIAN

• Russian and Ukrainian have also been added since the full viewer xml was submitted by Ian Kas and his Second Life Team. Ian and Second Kiev have just completed loc cycle 1 and are conducting viewer testing. We are really proud to have our viewer in cyrillic for the first time! :)
• See Top Contributors Here!

SPANISH

• Our Spanish viewer has been receiving a lot of love in the full revamp of localization! Our residents first collaborated on the Castilian Spanish Second Life Glossary CT-118, then they collaborated on the 3 cycles of localization for 1.23 and they are now testing 1.23 localization.
• Our residents also continue to help with improving the Spanish Registration area, translating SL blogs into Spanish and advising on localizability.
• To join in, please, sign up HERE
• See Top Contributors Here!

TURKISH

• Turkish community translation: CT-88 and VWR-2710. Thank you to Vixen Heron for starting the translation. We'd love to update the translation so, if you are Turkish and would like to help us make SL better for the Turkish users, please, sign up and come help! :)

MORE!!

• Viewer internationalization test plan compiling JIRA is CT-81. The test is still open for contributions. Please, feel free to contribute!!! The JIRA was started with the French community but I urge anyone with knowledge of the Japanese, German, Chinese, Spanish viewer or languages like: Polish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Turkish, to help us!!! Thank you in advance!!!

• We are constantly collecting ad-hoc translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Dutch from our wonderful residents. So far, we got great support localizing login screen strings, Registration strings, the new viewer browser tutorial. If you speak these languages and want to do some translation work, please, contact us: Danica Linden and Lexie Linden would love to hear from you. :)