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<title>Translators team: Reaching more people in their native language</title>
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<h1>Translators team: Reaching more people in their native language</h1>
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<p>The FSFE's translators team has been working tirelessly throughout the
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second year of Covid-19 to enable people all across Europe to read and learn
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about Free Software in their native language. Since the beginning of 2021 we
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have had over 230 new translations into 9 different languages, not counting the
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English originals.</p>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/big/34ce84a86a47cfdbf64e6f7845efbc6e.png" alt="Multilanguage heart in black"/>
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</figure>
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<p>Since the founding of the organisation in 2001 the FSFE's translators team
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has been an important part of the FSFE. The translations made by the
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translators team have enabled people all across Europe to learn and read about
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software freedom and the FSFE's mission to empower users to control technology.
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Translations from English to another language enable people who are not fluent
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in English to read, learn, and participate in Free Software. Without the help
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of our translators team, this would not have been possible.</p>
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<p>For the last 20 years the FSFE's translators team has been working on
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translating the FSFE's statements, news items, activities, campaigns, and
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background information. The first translation for our website, which is today
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no longer available on the website, was made in 2001 by translating the <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/fsfe-website/commit/e761cc866c4a245d0ec3dc1323257aedaaf70ae5">
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"Volunteers welcome" text to French</a>. Later the "Volunteers welcome" text
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became <a href="/contribute/">our contribute page</a>. In 2004, with the move from
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gnu.org to our own infrastructure, the then translation coordinator, <a href="/news/2021/news-20210305-01.html">Reinhard Müller</a>, launched the first
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general information page about the translators team and the translation
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process. Since then a lot has happened.</p>
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<blockquote>Reinhard Müller: "Translating web pages and press releases for
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FSFE is not only an important contribution to increase the outreach of our
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message, it has also proven to be an excellent first step for getting
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involved in FSFE's work."</blockquote>
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<h2>FSFE's translators team today</h2>
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<p>Today we have over 280 members on the translators mailing list, helping us
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in their spare time to translate for software freedom. We have 40 languages
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represented on our web page, with almost 7,000 translations. Among them are
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large projects, like the nearly finalised translation of the <a href="/activities/publiccode/brochure">"Public Money? Public Code!"
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brochure</a> to Spanish and the on-going translation of it to Italian.</p>
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<blockquote>Alejandro Criado-Pérez, translations to Spanish: "It's especially
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important to propagate the FSFE message in as many languages as possible,
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because Free Software's freedoms and their implications are often unknown or
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misunderstood, causing the general public to undervalue their vital
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importance to our democracy, privacy, and sustainability." </blockquote>
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<p>Not only have we increased our numbers in every direction (members,
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languages and translations), we have also improved our translation process. We
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have an actively maintained <a href="https://webpreview.fsfe.org"> webpreview
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tool</a> which allows translators as well as proofreaders to view the HTML
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source code as an actual web page. And of course we have also kept working on
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our style guide, wordlist, and the translators wiki. All of this is done with
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the help of the translators team itself.</p>
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<p>If you are interested in joining the FSFE's translators team you are very
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welcome to subscribe to our <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/postorius/lists/translators.lists.fsfe.org">mailing list </a>
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and have a look at our <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Translators">wiki page</a>.</p>
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<blockquote>André Ockers, Deputy Coordinator Translations, Translations to
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Dutch: "I translate for Free Software because I support the Free Software
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movement and want to help spread our message of empowering people to control
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their technology to Dutch-speaking people. Dutch is also the policy language
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in the Netherlands and a policy language in Belgium, so translations might be
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helpful in enabling policy advocacy on that level."</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Luca Bonissi, Deputy Translators Coordinator, Translations to
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Italian: "I love translating items about Free Software mainly because I love
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Free Software and I want that all Italian people could easily know the
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benefits of Free Software in their own language. As a side effect, since the
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translation process usually involves more than one person, I'm also learning
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more about English and Italian too! :-P "</blockquote>
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<blockquote>T.E. Kalayci, Translations to Turkish: "I like doing translation for
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FSF(E) because I want to spread the wise words of Free Software (which is
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very important to humanity and society in my opinion) to Turkish-speaking
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people. I am hoping that more people will understand the words,
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embrace the ideas in it and take part in the community to provide benefit to
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all the people."</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Pablo González, Translations to Spanish: "I like translating into
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Spanish because Free Software is for everyone, including people that don't
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understand English. One of the barriers here for the adoption of Free
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Software is the language."</blockquote>
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