Add Farsi (Persian) language to l.d.o

What is your relation to http://l10n.farzanbeh.com/ ?

hadi farnoud (the original requester) is the maintainer of http://drupal.org/project/fa. There is also http://drupal.org/project/pe which is linked to http://translate.irdrupal.com/

As far as I can tell (please do correct me if I am wrong) there is no good reason to have this duplication of localisation servers and translation packages, and so I recommend the creation of Farsi on l.d.o and getting everybody to work together in the same place. I have contacted alimosavi (the maintainer of the pe translation) suggesting this.

Yes, absolutely, our goal is to find and merge duplications, so you can work in concert and the users get the most out of what you contribute.

Hi

For this section : http://localize.drupal.org/

I ready to support Persian translation in this part to stop of separately translation of Persian .

All Persian translation groups can work together and develop Drupal for all Persian people .

The module maintainers of fa and pe have both agreed that we should move the translation server to l.d.o. The http://l10n.farzanbeh.com/ translation server doesn't allow new users to create accounts and so I don't think we should consider it to be open. I have however contacted them using their website to ask for their input on this (because it would be a shame to go ahead without them).

Hello,

I'm the maintainer of the http://l10n.farzanbeh.com/
It was always frustrating for me to see that there is a very slow movement in the Persian/Farsi translation of the Drupal. I tried to help it by running the first translation server for Persian. I set it as a closed registration to avoid the spamming etc. But I was wrong, because all this time, only one user contacted me and asked for an account.

Anyway, I am willing to do anything to end this situation an unite all the effort for the Persian language.

As for Hadi Farnoud - the maintainer of Persian translation, this translation is for version 5.x and is more than two years old. IMHO it is useless and long dead. furthermore, I checked his website and saw a Wordpress software -which is against the Drupal's regulation- therefore I concluded that he has totally abandoned the Drupal. I'm glad to see him back in this post.

I have checked alimosavi's website sometimes and I see a live and -to some extents- up to date website. But if there is a movement to host the translations in drupal's own hosting, I totally back it.

And finally, I want to appreciate the Gábor Hojtsy hard work for Drupal and specially multilingual features. Thank you Gábor and others :-)

+1, i have translated more than half of Drupal's interface and many contributed modules, and i can publish whenever Persian becomes active in l.d.o

in i18n the code is "fa" and title is "Persian"

Gábor , do you need anything on our side for activating this language?

Now that everyone is agree, lets export and share our translations, the one with more translated strings and better quality will be used as the based translation.

Here is my latest translation file (it includes over 60 contributed modules).
2177/4599 (47.34%)

Hadi,
Actually i didn't start from scratch, i download it from drupal.org but i'm not sure from which project or discussion.
I notified others as well, we should wait and see what they think, if you have time to maintain it i don't have any problem with project/fa to be the base translation , otherwise please grant CVS access to someone else to prevent anymore duplication.
Anyway let us know when you released the D6 version,

Regards

here is last translation for drupal 6 ( 1802/1886 (95.55%) )

Download : http://www.irdrupal.com/files/fa.zip

and Persian installation profile : http://www.irdrupal.com/irdrupal2.zip

What can i do else ?

Thanks Ali, Hadi can import the missing translations into his fa project.
I think for now we should wait until he releases D6 version. and then see what Gabor says.

@Gabor there is no relation between http://l10n.farzanbeh.com/ and fa project

This is trust .

i remove my site translate.irdrupal.com to only work with drupal.org for translation .

When Persian lan will be added ?

@alimosavi, Thanks ali, would you please put a note on your pe project and mention joining with fa project as well (in order to prevent in further discussion about duplications and also confusion for new users).

I shut down the http://l10n.farzanbeh.com/ as well.

As I mentioned before, I completely support the unified translation effort in Drupal organization.
And I hope I see you guys there translating :-)

That's the spirit, thanks guys

Hadi, please mark the topic as needs review when you're done.

Looks like superb teamwork going on here!

Created team at http://localize.drupal.org/languages/fa

Please expect that there might be bumps in the service. You are among the beta-tester of this live instance. Thanks for helping out and please report issues as you find them! Your team members can now join and help import existing translations and work on more translations.

Also note that I've set this up so that it uses a controlled model (that group admins moderate translations). If you'd rather work in an open model (that everyone can directly submit translations), that is up to you and you can edit your group node to reconfigure anytime.

Consequently, I've also removed the listing of the existing server at http://drupal.org/project/l10n_server so please do import the translations yourself and keep the pre-existing servers shut down.

Welcome on board!

Thanks Gábor.

Everyone : I think it's quite difficult for only one person to review and confirm all translations , instead i think we should agree to set of rules first and then work together , i created a translation guide page for this reason , so please join and share your opinion http://localize.drupal.org/node/378

I've marked http://drupal.org/project/pe abandoned/obsolete and added a note that it is now maintained on localize.drupal.org.