Here is the latest report to inform you of what has been going on PrestaShop translation project on Crowdin lately (which means this last March).

Updated translations

You’ve been quite a few to report a problem when fetching the language packs: it doesn’t include the latest translations made on Crowdin.

Yes, unfortunately, we’re (still) having issues with our synchronization system. The language packs don’t include the most recent translations from Crowdin, at the moment. We’re currently working on this, as we know it’s important for a lot of merchants. Hopefully, by the end of the month the language packs will be updated to include the most recent translations on Crowdin.

Now let’s get back to our Crowdin project, and the full report of its activity in March:

A few stats

  • 78 contributors joined the project this month, for a total of 2,697 members at the end of March. Welcome to them!
  • 44 members were active on the project this month.
  • A total of 103,856 words have been translated (+138%!) and 60,155 validated.
  • All this in 28 different languages.

That’s quite some work, thank you!

Top contributors

A lot of you are working everyday on Crowdin to have PrestaShop available in many languages, and we can’t thank you enough for your dedication! Here are the most active translators and proofreaders this March.

Top 10 translators in March:

Translator Language # Words
  1. | Vahur Suvi (spottraining) | Estonian | 39,091
  2. | webdvl (megashopba) | Slovak | 22,092
  3. | LastRhythm | Arabic | 8,108
  4. | Bruni | Chinese Simp. | 5,273
  5. | Peter Schiffer (acetonik) | Slovak | 4,265
  6. | Norbert Ujszigeti (unorbi) | Hungarian | 3,488
  7. | Cha (cafetango) | Chinese Trad. | 2,920
  8. | Martin Barfoed (MartinBarfoed) | Danish | 637
  9. | Wuk (wuk_aut) | German, Austria | 599
  10. | Taku (takumi412) | Chinese Trad. | 513

Top 10 proofreaders in March:

Proofreader Language # Words
  1. | webdvl (megashopba) | Slovak | 36,954
  2. | Vahur Suvi (spottraining) | Estonian | 14,713
  3. | Cha (cafetango) | Chinese Trad. | 3,662
  4. | Peter Schiffer (acetonik) | Slovak | 4,265
  5. | Jesús Ruiz (jruiz) | Spanish | 644
  6. | DaoKakao | Russian | 212
  7. | Danoosh Miralayi (danoosh) | Persian | 160
  8. | Morten Borg (mortenborg) | Danish | 120
  9. | farior | Bulgarian | 35
  10. | Koral | Polish | 30

A big applause to them! And welcome to our new top contributors!

Complete translations

Fully translated languages

At the end of March, PrestaShop 1.6.1 was fully available (= 100% translated and validated) in 15 languages. That’s two more languages compare to last month, Persian and Russian. Great! :)

  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Slovenian
  • Swedish
  • Vietnamese

98-99% translated languages

PrestaShop was also almost fully translated (and/or validated) in these 6 languages:

  • Czech
  • Indonesian
  • Portuguese
  • Portuguese, Brazilian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Spanish

We’re happy to welcome Romanian in this category! A little bit of work and these languages can be 100% translated and validated too! If you feel like you want to help, join the project!

(Note: since the end of March, Slovak has been fully validated, so things move fast!)

Languages with the best evolution

In comparison with February 2016, the following languages had the best progress in March:

  • German, Austria (+50% to reach 3% translated)
  • Estonian (+21% to reach 91% translated)
  • Slovak (+19% to reach 100% translated - yay!)
  • Romanian (+17% to reach 99% translated - another yay!)
  • Arabic (+15% to reach 55% translated)
  • Chinese simplified (+12% to reach 66% translated)

March 2016 best translation progress

Languages that need (more) proofreaders

A translated string will not be available in PrestaShop as long as it is not validated. For this reason, it’s important we should keep a good level of validated strings vs. translated strings, to make sure everyone benefits from the latest translations!

This month also brought a good news as Slovak has been fully approved! We’re down to 3 languages that require in priority some proofreading at the end of March:

  • Turkish (96% translated vs 0% validated)
  • Ukrainian (99% vs 53%)
  • Galician (49% vs 11%)

March 2016 best translation progress

If you wish to help proofreading what has been translated, please contact me on Crowdin with the language you’d like to proofread. We need your help!

If you haven’t joined us on Crowdin yet, it’s never too late!

If you want to gather your fellow translators to work towards a better harmonization, start a glossary, or anything else, do let us know: we’ll include a word about it in the next monthly report.

Do you have a question, a remark? Don’t hesitate to leave a comment. See you next month!