This group works on internationalization issues, like making it possible to translate menus, nodes and taxonomies in Drupal. This includes everything from process and workflows, to actual code issues or optimizations required. The Translations group is where to go if you are working on translating Drupal core or contrib modules.
Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on August 14th, 2013
The next milestone for Drupal 8's life is a possible beta release hopefully not much later this year. For the beta release, issues to focus for the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative are:
- The configuration translation module that we are working on which has no hope whatsoever to get in once we are in betas (but no majors and criticals should be expected as followups or it will be rolled back)
- Issues related to the upgrade path (tag more with "upgrade path" + "sprint" as appropriate)
- Issues that need to make API changes in core (tag issues with "API change" + "sprint" as appropriate; the API should be relatively stable in beta releases)
We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels! All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on July 31st, 2013
We recently got past 800 contributors on our initiative (counting all people who commented on issues we are working on), and there are still lots of things to do for all of us. We have work ongoing on the entity API front that need to be done. We also got one more chance to get the configuration translation interface module in core (but no majors and criticals should be expected as followups or it will be rolled back).
We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels! All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone. This meeting will be lead by YesCT.
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on July 17th, 2013
It is this time again! While there are lots of great things in Drupal 8 core, we also have work ongoing on the entity API front that need to be done. We also got one more chance to get the configuration translation interface module in core (but no majors and criticals should be expected as followups or it will be rolled back).
We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels! All help is welcome!
We are now back on a meeting schedule every other week. This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
Meetings are now every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupalCamp Costa Rica 2013 Open to international speakers and attendees
The 3rd Drupal Camp Costa Rica will be held this September the 13th and 14th, in the central facilities of the University of Costa Rica.
DrupalCamp Costa Rica is a non-profit event organized by the Drupal Users Group in Costa Rica, which is composed of local people and businesses. The aim of this event is to support and promote the Drupal open source project and unite the community of users and developers. Users with or without experience in Drupal will meet in a fun, valuable and generous knowledge sharing space.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on July 3rd, 2013
We had an amazing in-person meeting last week! (See photo). It was great to see many of the team members all in one space. We tried to connect those who could not make it via IRC.
This week, we are all back on IRC and will take stock of where we are with API freeze tasks, what needs more people to help, and so on. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels! All help is welcome!
We are now back on a meeting schedule every other week. This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
Meetings are now every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreComparative Multilingual Content Edit Experience Usability Study Findings
Comparative Multilingual Content Edit Experience Study
Focus of the study: To get answers to the following high-level questions:
- How do users current translate content on Drupal?
- How do users translate content on current Drupal 8 and current Spark translation feature?
- Which version do the users prefer? Why?
Number of participants: 3 (Acquia Internal), 3 (Partners/ Customers)
Participant profile:
- Participants who create/ translate multilingual content or have a need to do so in the near future
- Participants have not used the current Drupal 8 and Spark translation feature
Study Date: June 25-26, 2013
Recruitment: Participants were recruited through internal e-mail and Acquia Sales contacts
Compensation: No compensation was provided to the users
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on June 26th, 2013
(Post meeting announcement, sorry for not posting earlier).
We had a great in-person meeting in our usual time slot! We also had the pleasure to join in some people over IRC but we did more in-person chatting (naturally). We also quickly ran out of time allowed in the building. While this meeting had more in-person value, see the IRC log for mentions of important issues we are working on and need help with.

Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on June 19th, 2013
Time is quickly closing on on the possibility for Drupal 8 API changes (less than two weeks left). Although we got some big things in recently, we still have lots to do in terms of content, taxonomy and menu translatability and configuration translation as well as translation updates. We need all hands available to finish multilingual properties for non-node entity types in core, improve accessibility, fix core bugs and get the configuration translation user interface in. We should also think about the missing Drupal 8 related features on localize.drupal.org at this point.
We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome! We are on a weekly meeting schedule for the remaining weeks until July 1st, so we can reevaluate our standing and focus our efforts best. Our last meeting on this schedule will be in Dublin next week and attempt to join in everyone remotely over IRC at a minimum for the meeting time.
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
Meetings are now every week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on June 12th, 2013
Time is quickly closing on on the possibility for Drupal 8 API changes. Although we got some big things in recently, we still have lots to do in terms of content, taxonomy and menu translatability and configuration translation as well as translation updates. We need all hands available to finish multilingual properties for non-node entity types in core, improve accessibility, fix core bugs and get the configuration translation user interface in. We should also think about the missing Drupal 8 related features on localize.drupal.org at this point.
We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome! We are moving back to a weekly meeting schedule for the remaining weeks until July 1st, so we can reevaluate our standing and focus our efforts best. Our last meeting on this schedule will be in Dublin and attempt to join in everyone remotely over IRC at a minimum for the meeting time.
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
Meetings are now every week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreHow to generate a static version of a multilingual site?
Hello all,
(I'm new to Drupal internationalization. Excuse me if this is not the appropriate forum for my question)
What is the best way to generate a static version of a Drupal 7 multilingual site?
My site is currently available in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Every time that I try to use tools such as HTTrack to generate a static version of it, I end up with a bunch of loops and other errors that seem to be associated with the Multilink Redirect module. Has anyone already done anything similar? Can you help me out?
Thanks in advance!
Leo
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on June 5th, 2013
Time is quickly closing on on the possibility for Drupal 8 API changes. Although we got some big things in recently, we still have lots to do in terms of content, taxonomy and menu translatability and configuration translation as well as translation updates. We need all hands available to finish multilingual properties for non-node entity types in core, improve accessibility, fix core bugs and get the configuration translation user interface in. We should also think about the missing Drupal 8 related features on localize.drupal.org at this point.
We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome! We are moving back to a weekly meeting schedule for the remaining weeks until July 1st, so we can reevaluate our standing and focus our efforts best. Our last meeting on this schedule will be in Dublin and attempt to join in everyone remotely over IRC at a minimum for the meeting time.
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
Meetings are now every week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on May 29th, 2013
We are just back from a fantastic and extensive sprint at DrupalCon Portland! We got multilingual node properties in core now, have been improving the config translation module proposed for core in terms of usability and accessibility; and found important core bugs on the way. We also made menus use bundles which will enable us to add easy to use language settings on them shortly.
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. We still need all hands available to finish multilingual properties for other entity types in core, improve accessibility, fix core bugs and get the configuration translation user interface in. We should also think about the missing Drupal 8 related features on localize.drupal.org at this point.
We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome! We are moving back to a weekly meeting schedule for the remaining 5 weeks, starting from today, so we can reevaluate our standing and focus our efforts best. Our last meeting will be in Dublin and attempt to join in everyone remotely over IRC at a minimum for the meeting time.
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
Meetings are now every week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreAn automated approach to RTL support
As some of you may know, many (most?) contrib modules and themes only have partial or no support for right-to-left languages. Core is ok now, but it too can have problems sometimes (Seven admin theme took 8 months to become usable for RTL sites after D7's release).
So, I've been working on this thing which is meant to automate away the work involved in supporting RTL languages. It's not perfect by any means but I think the results are now good enough to post here.
Currently it only works with Drupal 7 and might require a Linux development machine (I haven't tried it on anything else).
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on May 8th, 2013
Recently, we got locale integrated with the schema system, which is a huge win for us. Now people can translate shipped configuration (but not yet custom configuration). We also made strides in converting the config translation module proposed for core to latest routing and form standards. We need reviewers on that issue and support to get into core! We also recently got transliteration for machine names into core! The first UI exposure of transliterations!
Now we need people to help review making node properties multilingual, so you can translate titles, and maintain publication status/authors per language. We are also working to make menus multilingual in https://drupal.org/node/1966298 and https://drupal.org/node/1945226.
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. Migration paths, tools for localize.drupal.org, more transliteration integrations, and so on. So we are not close to done yet. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there! This is the last meeting before DrupalCon Portland's huge onsite sprint!
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal Dev Days Dublin sprints coming up with final chance for Drupal 8 API changes
Drupal Dev Days Dublin is ideally timed to be at the very last minute when developers can still come together and make API changes to Drupal 8 core as per the current timeline.
The event is looking for sponsors, awaiting session submissions and people to register (only €25 for a standard ticket).
This is also a first of a kind event where extended sprinting is built into the planning. The generous folks at DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology) are providing space for the sprints the whole week before the event as well as the sessions. There are already Multilingual, Views and Field API/Entity API sprints proposed. Do you want to lead a sprint on Mobile, Performance or some other favorite topic or join existing sprints? Sign up for the event (on the site) and for the sprints (in the sheet linked below).
Practical details
- Dates
- 24th (Mon) to 28th (Fri) of June 2013 (may also continue all the way to 30th of June depending on space and interest, parallel to sessions).
- Times
- We start each day at 9am and plan to wind down sprinting at 7pm to go for food. Exact schedules depend on teams, hunger, etc.
- Location
- Dublin Institute of Technology; DIT Aungier Street, Dublin 2 (only a few minutes walk from Stephen's Green).
Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on April 24th, 2013
We are working on some truly exciting things recently!
- Integrating the configuration system with community translation, so shipped configuration can be translated,
- making node properties multilingual, so you can translate titles, and maintain publication status/authors per language, as well as
- finally making good use of transliteration in core and
- providing an easy user interface for configuration translation (in contrib for now).
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. Migration paths, tools for localize.drupal.org, more transliteration integrations, and so on. So we are not close to done yet. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there! There is only one more meeting before DrupalCon Portland's huge onsite sprint.
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on April 10th, 2013
We are working on some truly exciting things recently!
- Integrating the configuration system with community translation, so shipped configuration can be translated,
- making node properties multilingual, so you can translate titles, and maintain publication status/authors per language, as well as
- finally making good use of transliteration in core and
- providing an easy user interface for configuration translation (in contrib for now).
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. Migration paths, tools for localize.drupal.org, more transliteration integrations, and so on. So we are not close to done yet. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there!
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on March 27th, 2013
We are working on some truly exciting things recently!
- Integrating the configuration system with community translation, so shipped configuration can be translated,
- making node properties multilingual, so you can translate titles, and maintain publication status/authors per language, as well as
- finally making good use of transliteration in core and
- providing an easy user interface for configuration translation (in contrib for now).
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. Migration paths, tools for localize.drupal.org, more transliteration integrations, and so on. So we are not close to done yet. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there!
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on March 13th, 2013
This time Cathy (YesCT) Theys will lead the meeting to discuss ongoing issues in the multilingual initiative. Gábor is participating at a W3C event, and cannot attend. Be aware of timezone changes around your region as applicable!
We got some breakthroughs done recently. Nodes are now using the new entity field API (http://drupal.org/node/1818556) and we have a working implementation of a configuration translation user interface being explored at http://drupal.org/project/config_translation (as it stands now it will need to be a contributed module).
We need hands to help introduce, verify and fix configuration schemas and help test and continue the Entity API conversions as well as figure out node properties so titles and authors can become multilingual for example! We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there!
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual User Testing - Oak Park
I have one recording from the Oak Park Illinois USA Drupal 8 Multilingual user testing. There were some internet connection issues. So there should be a few more coming online very soon.
It was live streamed. And at least one person watched it live. I know because they were chatting with me in irc while it was going on. :) I'll tweet out links to the ones coming up too as we do them.
Issues will eventually be added to the d.o meta issue: http://drupal.org/node/1868058
Here is a link to the first recording. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj2S5n-77_Y
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