Crowdin

What is Crowdin?

Crowdin is a cloud-based solution that streamlines localization (L10N) management for software projects.

The Joomla CMS official language packs and many other aspects of the project are managed using Crowdin to facilitate managing L10N activities.

What can be translated on Crowdin?

There's a variety of content that needs to be translated and localised for use with Joomla. Joomla's using Crowdin Enterprise for managing localisations across the project. A number of leading extension developers are also using Crowdin as their localisation tool, and you can see those extensions also listed under Joomla's Crowdin project page as related projects.

• Joomla! CMS - Core Language packs for Joomla 4
• Joomla! Official Extensions - Extensions created by the Joomla! Project such as JEDChecker, Patch Tester, Language Pack component and Install From Web Extension
• Joomla! Official Website - Materials for the joomla.org suite of websites
• Joomla! Official Website Template - Language strings for the Joomla.org website template
• Joomla! Marketing Resources - Internationalising marketing resources to promote Joomla around the globe

A variety of 3rd party extension developers have also chosen Crowdin as their L10N solution. These are displayed on Joomla's crowdin, but are managed by the individual developers.

Getting Started

Create an account

To start using Crowdin, create an account at https://joomla.crowdin.com. If you're already using GitHub to contribute to the project, you can use your GitHub login (along with a few other OAuth options) to sign up to Crowdin.

Once you've created your account, visit the Crowdin Project for Joomla to contribute to Joomla 4 core translations, other translations for Joomla websites, Joomla marketing projects and other Joomla extensions.

Joomla 3 translations are mainly stored on Crowdin too, but managed outside Joomla's Crowdin Enterprise structure, but the setup works the same in regards to contributing translations.

Translating Documentation

Joomla Documentation doesn't use Crowdin for translation as it's built into the wiki. See the Documentation Translation Quickstart guide for more information.

Joomla Translation Program Team

For more information on participating in the Joomla Translation Program join the Joomla Translation Program Team or find out more information on JDocs via the Translations Working Group

The also has a range of documentation articles that translators can contribute to.

Further Information

• Crowdin have a comprehensive Knowledge Base which new users would be well served to familiarize themselves with.
• Some of the basic concepts about using Crowdin to translate Joomla are explained in more detail in the Joomla's L10N-hearted article from August 2021 in Joomla Community Magazine.