First-contributions: Translations are not up-to-date

[Roshanjossey]

Translations were done when tutorial was evolving. This led to some translations not being in sync with the base tutorial

🐞 Problem
Translations of tutorial is not up-to-date with tutorial (Readme) in English

🎯 Goal
Get all translations synced with English version

💡 Possible solutions
Check for differences between English version and other languages, Make necessary changes

📋 Steps to solve the problem

• Find a language from the list below which is unchecked. 🔲
• Comment below about what you've started working on.
• Find changes required, make those changes.
• Add, commit, push your changes
• Submit a pull request and add this in comments - Addresses #<put issue number here>
• Ask for a review in comments section of pull request
• Celebrate your contribution to this project 🎉

📋 Translations to be synced

• [x] Spanish
• [ ] Dutch
• [ ] Hindi
• [ ] Russian
• [ ] Japanese
• [ ] Vietnamese
• [ ] Polish
• [ ] Korean
• [ ] German
• [x] Simplified Chinese
• [x] Traditional Chinese
• [ ] Greek.

[aaossa]

I can make a PR with the spanish version :raised_hands: :grin:

[Roshanjossey]

Awesome @aaossa. If you need any help feel free to reach out to me.

We're also have a slack channel to support this project. You can join it by going to https://firstcontributions.herokuapp.com

[Jeet-Vikram]

I choose HINDI

[Roshanjossey]

@vikramjeetshyo1 That'd be awesome. Thank you

[sudojoseph]

I'll pick up Dutch

[Roshanjossey]

@Joseph1989: Thanks for taking it up. Do reach back to me if you need any help.

[sudojoseph]

@Roshanjossey Just compared the Dutch to the English but the Dutch is already up to date.

[Roshanjossey]

@Joseph1989

It's hard. It's always hard the first time you do something. Especially when you are collaborating, making mistakes isn't a comfortable thing. But open source is all about collaboration & working together. We wanted to simplify the way new open-source contributors learn & contribute for the first time.

Reading articles & watching tutorials can help, but what comes better than actually doing the stuff without messing up anything. This project aims at providing guidance & simplifying the way rookies make their first contribution. Remember: the more relaxed you are the better you learn. If you are looking for making your first contribution just follow the simple steps below. We promise you, it will be fun.

^ This part is not there in Dutch translation right? Would you like to add that?

[sudojoseph]

@Roshanjossey hope to have some time later today to check :-)

[kashura]

Do you still need help with Russian? @Roshanjossey

[Roshanjossey]

@kashura: Yes, It'd be awesome if you could pick it up

[kashura]

@Roshanjossey just to confirm, is this what needs to be translated? https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions/blob/master/README.md

[Roshanjossey]

@kashura: Yes

[platipo]

@Roshanjossey I saw there is no Italian translation.
Do you need me to do it?

[Roshanjossey]

@platipo: That'd be awesome. Go ahead

[siderio2]

@Roshanjossey, I would love to see my native language included in the list of avaliable translations: Galician. Of course I will do the job and make a PR if you are OK with this.

[Roshanjossey]

@siderio2: I'd love that. Go ahead

[ekrempel]

I will check the German one.

[AimeTPGM]

I'd like to help :) there is none Thai language but could I add new translation in Thai? I think it will be useful for GitHub beginner in Thailand. Thank you.

[Roshanjossey]

@AimeTPGM: Thank you for jumping in. Go ahead

[newbiegreen4ever]

I would like to help with Traditional Chinese. Still need helper?

[Roshanjossey]

@newbiegreen4ever: Yes. Both Chinese translations are not up to date

[dichaves]

I'd love to help with the Portuguese (BR) translation! I see that the additional material "Remove a branch from your repository" isn't translated, nor are the "Tutorials Using Other Tools". Can I help?

[Roshanjossey]

@dichaves: That'd be awesome. Go ahead. Let's follow the same structure we use for the main tutorial for translation of additional material too. Like translation directory inside additional materials directory and links to translations.

[Shhzdmrz]

I can make a PR with the Urdu version...

[Roshanjossey]

@Shhzdmrz, cool. Go ahead

[gunwooterry]

Working on a Korean version.

[xn0611]

I guess I will take Simplified Chinese then. Or just steal @newbiegreen4ever's work :)

[xn0611]

Actually @newbiegreen4ever has already sync up chs. Never mind then.

[cyberdrk]

Hi, is there anything left to do in the Hindi translation? :) or should the Hindi checkbox be ticked?

[Roshanjossey]

@cyberdrk, I see the self promotion section is not there in Hindi translation. ( and I love self promotion. 😜 ). Could you also double check if anything else is missing?

[cyberdrk]

😆 Sure thing @Roshanjossey , I'll do that. 😃

[gabitha]

I just submitted a PR that adds some minor fixes to the spanish translation and a missing badge.

[cbondurant]

I am currently hammering out an update for the Japanese translation, does anyone else think that the languages page should have each language in its own name? e.g. Japanese -> 日本語. Most language interfaces list languages in the way a speaker would be most likely to recognize them. I don't know if that might fall under its own issue though.

[Roshanjossey]

@cbondurant, Thank you for taking it up.

does anyone else think that the languages page should have each language in its own name?

Yes. Absolutely. While you're there, could you rename Languages.md to Translations.md? That name makes more sense.

[yuzhoujr]

@Roshanjossey I would like to take the Simplified Chinese Translation

[yuzhoujr]

Since there is really not much of a difference literally between Simplified and Traditional Chinese Translation, I will tackle that as well

[Roshanjossey]

Awesome @yuzhoujr 🖖

[sangwo]

Some parts were missing and there were also some mistranslations in Korean version, so I just submitted PR for updating&fixing!

[sangwo]

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[Biograf]

Suggest using this standard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3
to name the translation files. Hence, for example the file README.de.md would need to be renamed README.deu.md

[Biograf]

Actually according to the translator it was translated to Plattdüütsch. This is a dialect only used in some parts of Germany. This would mean the file should be renamed README.nds.md according to the standard above. Looking at the translation it looks like normal German to me. I am not a native German speaker, but as the dialect is quite strong I believe I can recognise the difference. I believe naming the translation Plattdüütsch is a joke. I would like to ask the contributor who put the Plattdüütsch in the file TRANSLATIONS.md. However, the file was re-named Translations.md, hence I cannot find it. I need some help to find out who edited the original file.

[cbondurant]

Im sorry to say I have no insight to this, I have not done anything with the translations page.

[sara-02]

@cbondurant my bad, I tagged the wrong name :/

[Biograf]

Do I have the go to update the naming of the German translation? Then I would create the pull request and get working.

[Roshanjossey]

@Biograf, sure go ahead

[Biograf]

@Roshanjossey, thanks. Which editor can I use to edit Translations.md?

[EuripidisK]

i can help with the Greek language if it's ok.

[sara-02]

@EuripidisK Sure, that will be awesome :)

[Roshanjossey]

@Biograf, your call. Any editor would work.

[hyagirty]

Do you still need a persian translation?

[GrzegorzSadowski]

Can I update Polish translation?

[sara-02]

@GrzegorzSadowski Sure, go ahead.

[SergiuIlciuc]

I can update the Romanian translation although it is not on the list. There are some small changes needed.

[sara-02]

@SergiuIlciuc you can surely do it. :)

[gitBKrp]

I can translate main additional material page to Polish.

[Roshanjossey]

@gitBKrp, there is already a Polish translation.
https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions/blob/master/translations/README.pl.md
Could you check if it is up to date with the English one? If not, please submit a pull request with necessary change

[gitBKrp]

Yes Polish version of beginner site is up to date with the English one.
What I meant was creating Polish version of
first-contributions/additional-material/git_workflow_scenarios/additional-material.md.

[Roshanjossey]

@gitBKrp, Oh, sure. Go ahead.

[arshadkazmi42]

Updated Hindi Translation to match current README.md file. PR #5775

[akramkazmi71]

Created Hindi translation for moving-a-commit-to-a-different-branch.md 5828

[akramkazmi71]

Created Hindi translation for removing-branch-from-your-repository.md 5876

[ayanovsk]

Working on translation of additional-material.md and amending-a-commit.md into Russian

[sara-02]

@ayanovsk Sure.

[CoderKlemen]

I will be working on translations to Slovene language. I plan on translating the basic tutorial and the contents of additional-material folder.
Thank you @arshadkazmi42 for directing me here.

[Sergih28]

I'll be working on a Catalan translation for the _README.md_ file.
Should the file be named _README.es-ca.md_ or _README.ca.md_ ?

[Sergih28]

To simplify it I named it README.ca.md, I'm already halfway! 😄

[Sergih28]

I noticed that the Spanish translation is not up to date anymore while doing the Catalan translation from the English one, because I took a look at the Spanish file for some orientation purposes.

[Roshanjossey]

@Sergih28, Thank you for taking this up. I think Readme.ca.md is fine.

I noticed that the Spanish translation is not up to date anymore while doing the Catalan translation from the English one, because I took a look at the Spanish file for some orientation purposes.

We want all translations to be up to date with English version in time. It'd be awesome if you can fix Spanish translation as well. :)

[Sergih28]

@Sergih28, Thank you for taking this up. I think Readme.ca.md is fine.

I noticed that the Spanish translation is not up to date anymore while doing the Catalan translation from the English one, because I took a look at the Spanish file for some orientation purposes.

We want all translations to be up to date with English version in time. It'd be awesome if you can fix Spanish translation as well. :)

Ok, I can. But, there are some translations I'd probably do different.
Should I change them?
Because if I don't, the whole translation will have different translation "styles" which will make the readme file a bit weird to read (not to understand), but I don't wanna discredit the work of the one who translated it first.

Spanish translations can be tricky, because Spanish from Spain (which is where I'm form) can be quite different from SA Spanish 😅

[Roshanjossey]

@Sergih28, yeah, I understand that problem. One workaround that I can think of is to do what we did with Portuguese translations. We have one for Portugal and one for Brazil. You could change the current one for Spain and we could get someone else to do South American Spanish. Also, try to find if you can find someone to do review of the translation. Having a second opinion is always better. :)

[Sergih28]

I reviewed it a little bit more in depth and I don't think there's any need to have a double Spanish translation.
It should be just a matter of updating it and "fixing" small expressions to make the translation a bit more fluent when you read it, so to say. But it's pretty fine as it is besides that.
So, may I just update and "correct" that in the Spanish _README.es.md_ then? @Roshanjossey

It's pretty much up to date, just a a paragraph and the flag list missing as far as I can see.

[Roshanjossey]

Yes @Sergih28, please go ahead.

We don't need flag list in translations though.

[Sergih28]

I'll delete it form the Catalan one then, but just noticed that the flag list is on some translations and isn't on some others. @Roshanjossey

[Roshanjossey]

@Sergih28, I'll create more issues for clean up tasks like that. I'm just deferring this till Hacktoberfest.

That way, we can have more new comers contributing.

[Roshanjossey]

We'll be creating separate issues to address changes to be done in different translations.

We'll have more issues created as a part of Hacktoberfest.

Closing this for the moment.

[bbborisk]

Hello! I was wondering, could I maybe add translation to Serbian language?

[sara-02]

@bbborisk Sure! Feel free to send a PR :)

[bbborisk]

@sara-02 Thanks! Added PR, but to an open issue #21778

Hope it is ok :)