quitsocialmedia.club/pages/Localization.md

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Localizing a content means translating it in another language to make it available to a broader public. If you'd like to do it, first of all thank you very much, secondly, there are a few things you need to know.

If you want to translate this website, don't skip this page content: please read carefully the list below

• You should have an complete understanding of English, since…
• …all of the content has to be translated from English only; for example, if you want to translate a page in French and you are proficient in Italian and French, you shouldn't translate it from Italian to French, but from English to French: pages in English are the ones you should refer to when translating. Also: the first pages to be updated with better content and new data are the ones in English; you don't want to risk to translate an outdated version of the page.
• You should be familiar with GitHub and Jekyll
• It might be helpful to know how git works
• Before translating anything, you have to change the wrapper layout file by adding a condition for the language your translating to, like this: {% raw %}{% elsif page.lang == 'page-lang' %}{% endraw %}, where page-lang stands for the language code of the language you're translating to.
• Another important thing to do before translating pages, is to add the language you're translating to in the index.html file, which allows to select the website language before getting in.
• The translation priority has the following order:
  1. The _includes pages (header, footer, dialogs). NOTE: translations in includes have to be inserted as {% raw %}{% elsif %}{% endraw %} tags, thus they should be like this {% raw %}{% elsif page.lang == 'page-lang' %}{% endraw %}, where page-lang stands for the language code of the language you're translating to.
  2. The main pages, which are:
     1. Homepage
     2. Why page
     3. About page
     4. Path page
     5. Quick page
     6. FAQ page
• All English pages are located in the pages folder; when you're adding a translated page, place it in a subfolder named after the language code. For example, all pages in Italian have the following path: /pages/it/. In order to make it quicker and easier to find a file in a folder, don't translate the
• All pages contain a front matter attribute called ref. Please copy and paste it in the translated page to make it appear among the available page translations in the language menu.
• All localized pages' permalink should correspond to its localized title; for example, the permalink of the Path page is /path, its correspondent page in Italian has Percorso as its title, so /percorso is its permalink.
• All the links to resources are in English, but if you know content in the language you're translating to which is related or similar to the English links, feel free to add or replace them, but take it up in a pull request comment, so that the localized link can be verified.
• Before committing the changes and opening a pull request:
  1. Update all the links in all the pages, to match the permalink of the localized page.
  2. Add your name in the Translators section of the Contributors page.

If you have trouble or you need any kind of help, please open an issue.

[Email me](mailto:{{ site.email | encode_email }}) if you know nothing about what I wrote about up to now but you'd like to contribute to translation anyway.