VisualEditor/TranslationCentral

Welcome to VisualEditor Translation Central!

Translating the VE interface
The interface of the VisualEditor environment itself must be translated. To translate the user interface, you need to create an account at translatewiki.net. (Translatewiki.net is not a Wikimedia Foundation project, so your universal login will not work there.) To create an account, go to its main page and fill in the “Become a Translator” form and press “Create account” beneath it. You will then need to translate a few of the items the software will show you. (These will keep coming, but you only need to translate a few.) After that, you will receive an email letting you know that you have been granted permission to translate. Once permission is granted, you can translate the VisualEditor interface at these points: Select the language from the pulldown, and it will show you what needs translation.
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 * View the progress so far at Translatewiki.net: Statistics

Translating the User Guide and other documents
The User Guide is another important document. To translate this, simply go to Help:VisualEditor/User_guide and select "translate this page". Your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've done this, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify translations (those that may be outdated are marked to the left with a clock).

Beyond the User Guide, there are a few other very useful documents that should be translated. See Localization for the full list and detailed instructions on how to help with this effort (and don't forget to record your progress on the progress page!)

Screenshots
Some of the help documents, especially the User Guide, have screenshots of VE buttons and dialogs. A fully translated version ideally should have screenshots of VE in its home language. Here are some tips for making screenshots:
 * Help:Screenshots

Feedback
The VE development team wants to hear from Wikipedia editors about their experiences with VE, improvements they want, and problems they are having. It's important that the editors of our smaller wikis have their opinions heard, too. Some of the larger wikis have special Feedback pages, like the Italian one, for example, but on smaller wikis comments left there may be overlooked. Please redirect requests about VE to this site's VisualEditor/Feedback page!

Updating help pages
Each wiki has its own collection of help pages. When VE is rolled out to the smaller wikis, it is important that the help pages are updated with information about VE, and links to translated user guides. If you've done some of this work for your wiki, please remember to update the Progress page.

TemplateData
Most of of our articles use templates in some form. VisualEditor has a template editor, but, for it to be user friendly, it needs to know what parameters the template supports. VE uses TemplateData to discover the supported parameters. However, TemplateData must be added to the template's documentation for this to happen. Every wiki has its own templates; it's very important that each gets TemplateData added to it. For an explanation of TemplateData, see our TemplateData main page, and our tutorial for detailed instructions on how to add it.

Documents for translation


Documents for translation, high priority:
 * VE User Guide
 * VE Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
 * VE Portal, a general description page
 * TemplateData
 * TemplateData Help page

Documents for translation, good to have:


 * VE "Why We Are Building This" page
 * VE Portal Template, that cool infobox you see on this page

Resources for translators

 * Detailed Localization Instructions
 * Translatewiki.net
 * Iberocoop has generously offered to help with Spanish translations
 * Translators-1, mailing list for translators
 * Category:Translator's Templates, on Meta

Participants

 * , English
 * , Czech
 * User:Kwj2772, Korean
 * , Korean
 *  Ę-oиė   >>>  ™, Indonesian & Minangkabau
 * , Persian (Farsi)
 * , Persian (Farsi)
 * , Hungarian
 * , Turkish
 * , Español
 * , Azerbaijani
 * , Thai
 * , Azerbaijani
 * , Serbian
 * , Greek
 * , Serbian (Српски)
 * , Serbian (Српски)
 * , Georgian
 * , Luxembourgish
 * , Asturian (this user will be merged onto in the future)
 * , Hungarian
 * , Lithuanian
 * , Lithuanian
 * , Faroese
 * , Khmer
 * , Macedonian
 * , Modern Greek
 * , Latvian
 * , Indonesian
 * , Turkish

Progress
Below are some useful tracking tables, showing the current progress on translation tasks: