Topic: Getting excited by 1.3 Kete UI translations
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Kete 1.3 will include ability to have multiple translations of a Kete site's user interface text. Users will then be able to pick the language they prefer, but we need translators!
I'm happy to say that we are beginning to wrap up the implementation of the next release of Kete, 1.3. However, we have a decent amount of non-implementation work necessary before 1.3 will be ready to push out the door. Besides the normal work preparing for release, 1.3 will introduce the need to have translation done.
In Kete 1.3, individual sites may choose which of the available languages they would like to give their users as options. The release will most likely ship with at least support for bot Te Reo and Chinese in addition to English. Pretty cool!
Wouldn't be great if we had a whole lot more translations than three? Here's a list of the top twenty spoken languages in the world, according to Wikipedia:
- Mandarin (written form is standard for Chinese language family)
- English
- Hindi
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Arabic
- French
- Bengali
- Russian
- Japanese
- German
- Telegu
- Punjabi
- Korean
- Wu
- Javanese
- Tamil
- Persian
- Marathi
- Vietnamese
- Italian
We'll have the top two languages covered, but it would incredible to go for the top five? How about the top 10? It would be amazing to see how many of the top 20 we could get done.
So, if you have the ability to do translation from English to one of the above or ANY other language, please drop me a line at walter -at- katipo -dot- co -dot- nz or add a comment below!
Walter McGinnis
said Re: top languages
Those that have a knowledge of the popularity languages may have picked up on a subtle problem with the Wikipedia ranking of languages that I cited. It is based on spoken language and Kete (and most websites) are really about written language.
So the number of how may people can read a written language may be dramatically different than the rankings mentioned. For example, in the context of how many people in the world read Arabic, it jumps from #6 to #3 I've been told.
Thankfully someone has already come forward to help us with an Arabic translation! Very cool.
Tags: translation, user interface