**Welcome to the translation project for publiclab.org! **

**The goal of this project** is to make Publiclab.org more genial and accessible to new and existing users and foster diversity.

**The final result** will be that publiclab.org can load in other languages according to what people have their own browser language preference set to. 

**What we're doing together** is each contributing translations of the small bits of text that appear all around the website, like the sidebar, the header, and the footer. 

**Check out the series of activities below to get involved, thanks!**


## Translation prompts

By clicking the button "Join this group", you enable small <i class="fa fa-globe"></i> prompts around the site, for text which are not yet translated into the language you've selected. Click them, and you'll be prompted to provide a translation. You will need a Transifex account (see below).

The people in this list have signed up to see these prompts and help translate the website:

[people:translation-helper]

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## Activities for people who want to translate this website

[activities:localization]

### Publishing new translation texts to the website

To get new translations actually published on the website, we need to take a few steps, starting with opening a GitHub issue. See this example:

https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/9481

If it's a new language, we will also need to add it to the footer listing; please contact an admin for this. 

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## Activities for people who want to translate specific guides for tools

[activities:translation]

<i class="fa fa-film"></i> **Watch this small video on using Transifex for translation**
<iframe width="900" height="560" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3y0x8q3Oj7Q" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<a href="/post?tags=question:localization,request:activity&template=question&title=How%20do%20I...&redirect=question" class="btn btn-primary">Request an additional guide</a>

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## Activities for Transifex managers

[activities:localization-managers]

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Original proposal by @jiteshxyz: https://publiclab.org/notes/jiteshxyz/03-20-2016/internationalization-of-publiclab-org and write-up: https://publiclab.org/wiki/internationalization-getting-started-as-a-translator