How to request a new language for translation

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How to request a new language for translation#

Assumptions#

  • The language you are interested in is not listed on the Transifex openedx-translations Transifex project.

  • A variant of the language that may meet your needs is also not listed (Chinese vs Chinese-China).

  • Prefer a root locale over a variant locale (de over de_DE) whenever applicable so other locales can inherit from it e.g. de_AT.

  • If you request a new language, we ask that you commit to the success of your language’s translation project. Particularly, we expect you to:

    You will be responsible for advancing your target language to completion, with all strings translated and reviewed, so that we can publish your work to the Open edX community.

Warning

Languages can be removed from the project if they are not actively maintained.

Steps#

  1. Email oscm@axim.org to request a new language code. Please do not request a language from the openedx-translations Transifex project, because we can’t communicate with you via this channel. Please email instead.

  2. Wait for an Open edX translation team member to respond to your request within a few days. Please keep the following in mind:

    • The Open edX team needs to verify the language code and often will have questions before accepting a new language. For example, a request for a specific locale (such as German for Germany de_DE or Arabic for Iraq ar_IQ) will be weighed against a more global language code (such as global German de or global Arabic ar).

    • A language will only be added with a commitment from an individual or group to manage the translators for the language for at least one release. The Open edX project is large, and there’s high turnaround of translators which often results in low quality translations and in some cases invalid translations that cause server errors.

  3. If the language that you request is approved, you become the coordinator of the project. You can add additional coordinators, reviewers, and translators as you wish.

Maintenance chart

Review Date

Working Group Reviewer

Release

Test situation

2025-10-03

Omar

No release

Pass
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