What languages should be included?

Ali,

I wonder if we shouldn't add Portugese onto that list as its widely spoken in Latin American countries. Also what about other Eastern European & Nordic languages (Polish, Swedish etc) and Mandarin which is one of the most widely spoken in the world?

On another note I'm willing to work on the English (UK) translation if I can get a little bit of guidance with it? I'm a newbie but more than willing to dedicate the time and effort if I can get a couple of pointers to get me started :)

Chinese is in the import queue. It's been taking a while for some reason, but seems like it's gonna work.

I can see Portuguese being a good suggestion. I don't want to have a bunch of them on there that are going to be totally untranslated. I'd like a more definite list maybe. Especially a list of places Ubuntu is already very popular. (I'll check Google Trends)

Does there need to be a UK/British translation for a site that is already in English (American)? Short of "colour" and "grey", it's the same, right?

Sorry for the (near) double post.

According to google trends:
Languages
1. Italian
2. Finnish
3. Russian
4. Swedish
5. Spanish
6. French
7. German
8. Portuguese
9. English
10. Polish

Regions
1. Italy
2. Norway
3. Russia
4. Finland
5. Spain
6. Sweden
7. France
8. Portugal
9. Germany
10. Taiwan

I included the regions one because it shows a slightly different breakdown. Taiwan isn't even on the main one, which uses Chinese Traditional.

I will try to add a few of those.

There are a few others, but yeah its basically the same. I still don't mind going through it. As a bit of a Launchpad newbie it'll be a good start.

I'd probably avoid the Taiwan exception for now, but its entirely up to you.

It's nice you guys are taking up on this. I will have time the whole
weekend and my plan is SpreadUbuntu and the URP in Oslo, so I hope to
see you at the IRC channel #ubuntu-marketing channel @ FreeNode

Let's see if we can get some traction and a virtual jam!

We are going alpha!! :)

AWESOME!

R.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Kim Lofthouse
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We (the Catalan Loco Team) would like to translate the site to our language (catalan), but it's not in the list of available languages. Is it possible to have it added?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Thank you for your interest in translating spreadubuntu.

We are working on an overhaul of SpreadUbuntu. As a result, many translations will change. We may also get the benefit of having core translations separated from the important interface ones.

As a result, it would be easier for both of us if we waited for the new version to be finalized before adding/changing any more translations.

Before anyone worries about wasted effort, I will be doing my best to transfer as many translations as possible to the new .po's and leave existing base/untranslated strings unaltered in the .pot's.

We should add romanian to the mix:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2009-June/003245.html

R

What about the arabic language ? I think it should be added.