Drupal comes with a translation system that allows you to translate the user interface and its built-in help into another language, and to download translations. Each language has an active group that is continually improving and adding to the available user interface translations. Drupal documentation is also being translated: there are a few pieces of documentation, such as the User Guide, that have translations on drupal.org, and several language communities also translate Drupal documentation onto their Drupal language community's web site.
To find and join the groups that are translating:
- For user interface translations, visit https://localize.drupal.org/, where you can see progress of translations and join translation groups to contribute translations.
- For the User Guide, visit the project page at https://www.drupal.org/project/user_guide
- For translating other Drupal documentation, visit https://groups.drupal.org/translations
- Many Drupal language communities have their own web sites, forums, and chat channels, where you can connect with others who are involved in translation. Visit https://www.drupal.org/language-specific-communities to find these communities; some chat channels for languages and regions are also listed on https://www.drupal.org/drupalchat and https://www.drupal.org/slack.
- Drupal events, from Drupal Camps to DrupalCon, often include contribution days, where you can work on translations. You can find Drupal events at drupical.com, or on your language community's web site.
Drupal documentation is constantly evolving. Current documentation about translation can be found at:
- How to translate Drupal Core and Modules: https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks/translate
- Background information on interface translation
- For the User Guide translations, instructions for joining an existing translation group are at https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide_guidelines/practicalities.html#pr..., and for starting a new translation, you would use your language's forum on https://localize.drupal.org to form a group, and then visit https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide_guidelines/pm-guide.html#pm-guide... for instructions on how to initiate the translation.
- How to translate documentation: https://www.drupal.org/node/17229
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