Drupal comes with a translation system that allows you to translate the user interface and its built-in help into another language, and to download translations. Each language has an active group that is continually improving and adding to the available user interface translations. Drupal documentation is also being translated: there are a few pieces of documentation, such as the User Guide, that have translations on drupal.org, and several language communities also translate Drupal documentation onto their Drupal language community's web site.

To find and join the groups that are translating:

Drupal documentation is constantly evolving. Current documentation about translation can be found at:

Tasks and Roles in this area

Review a translation (Contributor task)
Review new and updated translations by new translators so they can be accepted into the localization system
Duration:
20 minutes
Translate user interface text (Contributor task)
Propose one or more translations of user interface text, from English to a non-English language
Duration:
1 hour
Translation group manager (Contributor role)
Oversee the translators and translation moderators for a language
Duration:
ongoing
Translation moderator (Contributor role)
Review new and updated translations, marking them either as approved or rejected
Duration:
ongoing
Translator (Contributor role)
Translate English text that is part of the Drupal and contrib module codebase into other languages
Duration:
ongoing

Skills used

There are tasks and roles in this area that require these skills:

Mentoring
Build confidence in novices by helping novices complete relevant tasks
Translating
Ability to translate English text to another language

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