Translations on Wafrn, and how to contribute

Wafrn is slowly working on internationalization, or more specifically translatable strings. Whilst many parts of the UI are still untranslated, we've been slowly building a set of strings to translate. Said strings can be viewed on GitHub.

At the time of writing, we have an English and a Polish translation. The English translation should be used as reference; When we add strings, they are added to the English translation first.

Getting started with translating is pretty easy. If you know your way around Git and GitHub already, just send us a PR with your strings in a file named after the country code.

If you don't know your way around Git and GitHub yet, here's the quick-start guide:

• Sign up for GitHub at https://github.com, then visit https://github.com/gabboman/wafrn and look for the "fork" option/button.
• It will ask you some questions, but these can all be left as the default really.
• It will load, then redirect you to a page like https://github.com/YOURUSERNAME/wafrn. You can edit directly in this browser by just hitting period (.) on your keyboard and it will redirect you to an editor. Alternatively, download a copy using GitHub desktop.
• From here, navigate to packages/frontend/srcassets/i18n where you will see different language files. Make a copy of en.json and rename it to youor country's 2-letter language code.
• Now just translate! Change the strings to represent roughly the same content in your language. Once you're done, save your files.

Now depending on whether you used GitHub Desktop or are editing in a web browser, the next step will differ slightly:

GitHub Desktop

Input a summary/title for your changes and hit "commit to main" on the bottom left.

If it asks you to publish your branch, do so! You can't continue otherwise.

Next, it may show you something like this:

If not, navigate to Branch → Preview Pull Request at the top of the window:

Either way, you should see a page like this:

Hit "Create Pull Request" and it will redirect you to the GitHub webpage with your proposal ready to be written:

Nothing fancy is required here! Just give it a title like Add [Some Language], a small description if there's anything else that you think may be relevant, and make sure to scroll down and check the files you want to be there are actually present!

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GitHub's Web Editor

If you've ever used VSCode you'll feel right at home. Welcome to the GitHub Web Editor!

GitHub automatically saves edits here, and instead of committing them locally they will be uploaded to GitHub automatically. So once you've edited your translations file, head over to the "Source Control" section on the left:

You should then see something akin to this:

Put in a title for your change into the 'Message' box, then hit "Commit & Push"!

Once you've done that, navigate back to https://github.com/YOURUSERNAME/wafrn and you should see a banner such as this one:

Click on it, and you should be lead to a page like this:

Give it a title like 'Added [language] translation', a description if you need one, and scroll down to be sure your changes are actually included!

Once you're ready, hit Create Pull Request.