Today we're launching a new tool on umbraco.org: A community based translation tool for the umbraco UI files.
The umbraco backend is already 100% translateable so it can work with any language. This is done by storing all UI text in a seperate file, so to make umbraco available in another language, you basicly just translate that single file and a new language is available.
Untill now, it's been a hassle to keep track of the different language versions floating around on different blogs, wikis and 3rd party sites, and it's been a hassle to maintain these files on each new release.
But no more, today we're opening up for our wonderfull community to be an even more active part of umbraco developement. Directly on umbraco.org it is now possible to edit and manage different language versions of the UI files. Everyone can take part in editing these files, and anyone can start working on a new language and get help from fellow community members.
When a file is completed it can be downloaded directly from umbraco.org, and will also be available in the package repository as a language package for umbraco version 4.
We believe our community is without any doubt umbracos greatest assett, this language tool is the first of many new things we are planing for our community to take even greater part in making and defining umbraco.
We launched a beta on twitter 2 days ago, at the time of this posting, 7 language projects has been started and contributed to by the community, impressive!
The language tool can be found at "language files" in the documentation section