Contributing UI Translations

We want to make the user interface available in as many languages as possible. If you want to help: providing a translation is easy - and because there are not many labeled elements, it’s not a lot of work.

Message Dictionaries

User interface labels are part of recogito-client-core, a JavaScript package for common code shared between Annotorious and RecogitoJS. In this folder you will find messages files, one file for each available translation.

Each messages file is a dictionary of the default English labels and their translations. For example, here’s what the German translation file messages_de.json looks like.

{
  "Add a comment...": "Kommentar schreiben...",
  "Add a reply...": "Antwort schreiben...",
  "Add tag...": "Tag...",
  "Cancel": "Abbrechen",
  "Close": "Schliessen",
  "Edit": "Bearbeiten",
  "Delete": "Löschen",
  "Ok": "Ok"
}

To add a new translation

Fork the recogito-client-core repository
Add a message file to the src/i18n folder named messages_{iso}.json, where {iso} is the 2-character ISO code of the language.
Copy the dictionary above, and replace the translations accordingly.
Send a pull request

Many thanks in advance! If you have questions, do get in touch via the Annotorious chat on Gitter.

Translations so far

Language	Locale	Status	Dictionary file
Arabic	ar	Partial	messages_ar.json
Czech	cs	Complete	messages_cs.json
Dutch	nl	Complete	messages_nl.json
Finnish	fi	Complete	messages_fi.json
French	fr	Complete	messages_fr.json
Galician	gl	Complete	messages_gl.json
German	de	Complete	messages_de.json
Greek	el	Complete	messages_el.json
Hindi	hi	Complete	messages_hi.json
Italian	it	Partial	messages_it.json
Korean	ko	Complete	messages_ko.json
Portugese	pt	Complete	messages_pt.json
Spanish	es	Complete	messages_es.json
Swedish	sv	Partial	messages_sv.json
Thai	th	Complete	messages_sv.json
Turkish	tr	Complete	messages_sv.json
Urdu	ur	Complete	messages_ur.json

Your language isn’t on this list? Consider contributing!