INaturalistWeb
Translations for the website https://www.inaturalist.org. Our code can be found at https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist. To help with translations for iNaturalist's mobile apps, check out https://crowdin.com/project/inaturalistios.
SCHEDULE
We will update translations on the website on at least a monthly basis, usually around the start of the month. If there's new functionality with a lot of new text to translate, we may update sooner. We usually deploy translations to the live site on the same day we pull them into the code and run our QA process.
APPROVAL / PROOFREADING
Those of us on staff don't speak every language on Earth, so approval is mostly a matter of spot checking a few contributions by a given translator using Google Translate, and if they don't look like spam, just approving the rest of that person's contributions. We do review for code and formatting problems, though.
We will assign proofreaders on request (DM us on crowdin or iNat, or use help@inaturalist.org), but usually only if that person has already added a significant number of contributions in a given language. It also helps if we know that person is an iNat user. So if you want to be a proofreader, a) add a bunch of translations, and b) contact us, and include your iNat username.
For some locales (es-MX and fr-CA) we leave all proofreading to iNaturalist Network partners, who may be operating on a different schedule.
NEW LOCALES
Please contact a manager like @kueda if you want to add a new locale. Crowdin supports a lot of them (even Klingon!), but we need to turn them on before people can add translations.
Note that we will only start showing a locale in the language chooser when we have some translations, so just because a locale is available for translation in Crowdin doesn't mean it will show up on the site.
PLURAL FORMS
Please be sure to translate *all* plural forms of a string that are offered. Crowdin will not export any translations of that string unless all the plural forms of that string are translated. If you're confused by the "OTHER" form, I believe it refers to a plural form for fractions in most languages. Note that some languages, like Russian, use the "one" form for numerous numbers, e.g. 51, 81, etc., so make sure to include the %{count} variable even if the English translation does not.
SCHEDULE
We will update translations on the website on at least a monthly basis, usually around the start of the month. If there's new functionality with a lot of new text to translate, we may update sooner. We usually deploy translations to the live site on the same day we pull them into the code and run our QA process.
APPROVAL / PROOFREADING
Those of us on staff don't speak every language on Earth, so approval is mostly a matter of spot checking a few contributions by a given translator using Google Translate, and if they don't look like spam, just approving the rest of that person's contributions. We do review for code and formatting problems, though.
We will assign proofreaders on request (DM us on crowdin or iNat, or use help@inaturalist.org), but usually only if that person has already added a significant number of contributions in a given language. It also helps if we know that person is an iNat user. So if you want to be a proofreader, a) add a bunch of translations, and b) contact us, and include your iNat username.
For some locales (es-MX and fr-CA) we leave all proofreading to iNaturalist Network partners, who may be operating on a different schedule.
NEW LOCALES
Please contact a manager like @kueda if you want to add a new locale. Crowdin supports a lot of them (even Klingon!), but we need to turn them on before people can add translations.
Note that we will only start showing a locale in the language chooser when we have some translations, so just because a locale is available for translation in Crowdin doesn't mean it will show up on the site.
PLURAL FORMS
Please be sure to translate *all* plural forms of a string that are offered. Crowdin will not export any translations of that string unless all the plural forms of that string are translated. If you're confused by the "OTHER" form, I believe it refers to a plural form for fractions in most languages. Note that some languages, like Russian, use the "one" form for numerous numbers, e.g. 51, 81, etc., so make sure to include the %{count} variable even if the English translation does not.