Use an online translation service

[Wendigogo]

Hi,
As you stated in your website nobody arrives from a country whose language the site does not speak.
But why use plain text files on Github while there are great translation tools available? With a lot of people able to help in translating your project.
I could think about https://crowdin.com/ and https://weblate.org/ : both are free of charge for open-source projects (and my preference goes to the first one but it's been a long time I didn't go to the other).

My 0.02 cents

[MTSistemi]

Thank you @Wendigogo, and sorry for the long wait.

You're right that the hard part is people, not files. Of our nine languages only Polish has been read by a native speaker (thanks to Cyryl Sochacki). The five we added in August, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French, are marked as needing review, and nobody has reviewed them yet. A tool that lets someone fix a line without learning git would help exactly there.

Where things stand:

• The application strings are already one JSON file per language: system/usr/share/skillfish/i18n/<lang>.json for the shared dictionary, and apps/control-center/i18n/<lang>.json for the Control Center. Weblate and Crowdin both read that format straight from the repository, so connecting one is a small job.
• The website strings are TypeScript objects (website/src/i18n.<lang>.ts, plus the news entries). Neither tool reads those as they are, so they would need converting to JSON first.

So the application strings are where we'd start. Before we set anything up, it would help to know who would use it. If you, or anyone reading this, would review a language, say which one here. A couple of people are enough for us to connect it.

[Wendigogo]

Hi,
I'm a French native and I can proofread your strings for this language. Preferably on Crowdin as I'm used to it and it gives some useful features helping translations.

Be aware that I'm not using SkillFiskOS atm so I couldn't check if every wording is fine, according to the context or available length (French could be way longer than English).