diff --git a/core/modules/locale/lib/Drupal/locale/Tests/LocaleFileImportStatus.php b/core/modules/locale/lib/Drupal/locale/Tests/LocaleFileImportStatus.php
index 2126b26..e7b3b94 100644
--- a/core/modules/locale/lib/Drupal/locale/Tests/LocaleFileImportStatus.php
+++ b/core/modules/locale/lib/Drupal/locale/Tests/LocaleFileImportStatus.php
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ class LocaleFileImportStatus extends WebTestBase {
    *   A file object of type stdClass.
    */
   function mockImportedPoFile($langcode, $timestamp_difference = 0) {
-    $dir = variable_get('locale_translate_file_directory', drupal_get_path('module', 'locale') . '/tests');
-    $testfile_uri = $dir . '/test.' . $langcode . '.po';
+    $dir = variable_set('locale_translate_file_directory', drupal_get_path('module', 'locale') . '/tests');
+    $testfile_uri = 'translations://test.' . $langcode . '.po';
 
     $file = locale_translate_file_create($testfile_uri);
     $file->original_timestamp = $file->timestamp;
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class LocaleFileImportStatus extends WebTestBase {
     variable_set('locale_translate_file_directory', $dir);
     $langcode = 'de';
     $this->addLanguage($langcode);
-    $file_uri = $dir . '/po_' . $this->randomName() . '.' . $langcode . '.po';
+    $file_uri = 'translations://po_' . $this->randomName() . '.' . $langcode . '.po';
     file_put_contents($file_uri, $this->randomName());
     $this->assertTrue(is_file($file_uri), 'Translation file is created.');
     language_delete($langcode);
diff --git a/core/modules/locale/lib/Drupal/locale/TranslationsStream.php b/core/modules/locale/lib/Drupal/locale/TranslationsStream.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..975c184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/modules/locale/lib/Drupal/locale/TranslationsStream.php
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Definition of Drupal\locale\TranslationStream.
+ */
+
+namespace Drupal\locale;
+
+use Drupal\Core\StreamWrapper\LocalStream;
+
+/**
+ * Defines a Drupal translations (translations://) stream wrapper class.
+ *
+ * Provides support for storing translation files.
+ */
+class TranslationsStream extends LocalStream {
+
+  /**
+   * Implements Drupal\Core\StreamWrapper\LocalStream::getDirectoryPath()
+   */
+  public function getDirectoryPath() {
+    return variable_get('locale_translate_file_directory',
+      conf_path() . '/files/translations');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Implements Drupal\Core\StreamWrapper\StreamWrapperInterface::getExternalUrl().
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   Returns the HTML URI of a public file.
+   */
+  function getExternalUrl() {
+    $path = str_replace('\\', '/', $this->getTarget());
+    return $GLOBALS['base_url'] . '/' . self::getDirectoryPath() . '/' . drupal_encode_path($path);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/core/modules/locale/locale.bulk.inc b/core/modules/locale/locale.bulk.inc
index f795f99..896f9f7 100644
--- a/core/modules/locale/locale.bulk.inc
+++ b/core/modules/locale/locale.bulk.inc
@@ -278,7 +278,14 @@ function locale_translate_batch_import_files($langcode = NULL, $finish_feedback
  */
 function locale_translate_get_interface_translation_files($langcode = NULL) {
   $directory = variable_get('locale_translate_file_directory', conf_path() . '/files/translations');
-  return file_scan_directory($directory, '!' . (!empty($langcode) ? '\.' . preg_quote($langcode, '!') : '') . '\.po$!', array('recurse' => FALSE));
+  $return = file_scan_directory($directory, '!' . (!empty($langcode) ? '\.' . preg_quote($langcode, '!') : '') . '\.po$!', array('recurse' => FALSE));
+
+  foreach ($return as $filepath => $file) {
+    $file->uri = 'translations://' . $file->filename;
+    $return[$file->uri] = $file;
+    unset($return[$filepath]);
+  }
+  return $return;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -358,7 +365,7 @@ function locale_translate_batch_finished($success, $results) {
 function locale_translate_file_create($filepath) {
   $file = new stdClass();
   $file->filename = drupal_basename($filepath);
-  $file->uri = $filepath;
+  $file->uri = 'translations://' . $file->filename;
   $file->timestamp = filemtime($file->uri);
   return $file;
 }
diff --git a/core/modules/locale/locale.module b/core/modules/locale/locale.module
index ce20b59..2fc097a 100644
--- a/core/modules/locale/locale.module
+++ b/core/modules/locale/locale.module
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
  */
 
 use Drupal\locale\LocaleLookup;
+use Drupal\locale\TranslationsStream;
 
 /**
  * Regular expression pattern used to localize JavaScript strings.
@@ -170,6 +171,21 @@ function locale_theme() {
 }
 
 /**
+ * Implements hook_stream_wrappers().
+ */
+function locale_stream_wrappers() {
+  $wrappers = array(
+    'translations' => array(
+      'name' => t('Translation files'),
+      'class' => 'Drupal\locale\TranslationsStream',
+      'description' => t('Translation files'),
+      'type' => STREAM_WRAPPERS_LOCAL_NORMAL,
+    ),
+  );
+  return $wrappers;
+}
+
+/**
  * Implements hook_language_insert().
  */
 function locale_language_insert($language) {