Technical Collaboration Guidance/Translation

Wikimedia projects support over two hundred languages; translations are important to distributing information about software development. There are two components to the translation process: getting the information translated for distribution, and then the actual distribution itself. These processes are documented extensively elsewhere, so a summaries are provided with links to find more detailed information about the translation process.

Getting translations
Translations are primarily obtained through four ways: automated messaging on-wiki from marking a page from translation, emailing the translators' mailing list, one-to-one requests, or system messages translated through translatewiki.net. Of these four methods, generally speaking sending an email to the translators' mailing list or contacting an individual for a request are the most common way for anyone to ask for translations. Messaging through the translate extension requires a user right, and translatewiki.net is not a Wikimedia project.

Distributing translations
Ref: T137231

Announcements and calls for feedback are generally distributed through mailing lists as well as on-wiki. Unfortunately, major movement mailing lists are predominantly in English and do not support distributing translations very well, if at all. On-wiki messaging in the way to deliver new and information to the wider international audience.