Piwik is ready to be translated! We need your help

Piwik is an international open source project, we are happy to announce that you will soon use Piwik in your native language!

Thanks to the work of Maciej Zawadziński, Piwik is now ready to be translated.

Do you use Piwik and your mother tongue is not english?

You can help us translate Piwik in your own language. Send us an email at hello@piwik.org and tell us which language you would like to translate Piwik in.

Do you want to be part of the Piwik team as “Translation coordinator”?

We are looking for someone who would coordinate the translation efforts. You would have to talk to the translators, make sure their translations are up to date whenever possible, help new translators. When several people speaking the same language want to help us with translations, you would ask them to review the existing translation.

It’s a great way to participate in Piwik without tech-development knowledge! :) Contact us if interested.

How does it technically work?

Translations strings are located in files in the /lang/ directory and in every plugin.

  • Copy the english files, rename them using your country 2 letters locale code ; eg. “fr.php”
  • Translate the strings
  • Edit your configuration file config/global.inc.php and change the “current” value in the [Language] section using your 2 letters language iso code.
  • Check all your translations, and make sure they make sense in context
  • Send us a patch containing the translation files (see How to create a patch?)

What features is coming in the future?

  • support for right to left languages
  • support for graph labels translations

This entry was posted on Monday, April 28th, 2008 ; category Development ; RSS comments.

9 Responses to “Piwik is ready to be translated! We need your help”

  1. Sascha Says:
    May 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    Hi!

    I tried to publish some graphs on my website, but it doesn’t work. Does it only work when the stats are public?

    Thanks alot.

    Sascha

  2. Matthieu Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Sasha, currently yes you’re right to add flash graph in your blog you need to set the stats public. In the future we are planning to add a report based token, so you can choose which report you want to export. Stay tuned..

  3. Alberto Says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    Hi!
    I’ve tried to install Piwik, but it doesn’t work.
    I take a look at the DB. The application register data in piwik_log_action but no data in the connected tables piwik_log_visit and piwik_log_link_visit_action.

    Is it a known problem? Or does it happen only to me?

    Thank you very much!

  4. Alberto Says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    I forgot…I download the 0.1.5 version

    P.S. In the next day I’ll try to help in the italian translation… :)

  5. Juanma Says:
    May 8th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    Hi dudes!
    I translated Piwik to spanish.
    So easy…
    Congratulations… Piwik rules… I hope it will even more!

  6. Danielle Says:
    May 13th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    Hi,

    My husband and I can translate to Japanese if you don’t already have someone!

  7. Tobias Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    I have translated Piwik to german - my patch is attached to ticket #62 in the trac envoirement.

    But there are still some problems regarding special chars e.g. äöüß (i hope they will be shown here).
    How to fix this problem?

  8. bweb Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    i make translation to polsih where can i put those file?

  9. Sergio Cabral Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 4:31 am

    Hi , I would like to translate Piwik to Brasilian Portuguese … Great SoftWare ….

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