The Liberland translation project aims to make all essential Liberland documents available in as many languages as possible. At the present time, this project is translating documents from the following repositories:
The translation of individual source files is done using a simple web-based interface that is offered by Transifex to open source projects. The project administrators upload the english source files to Transifex, the files are translated online by the community, and the administrators pull the translated files back into this repository. All translated files are then converted to several formats for distribution, including pdf, ePub, Mobi, and html.
Please note that the English version shall always prevail in case of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English version and any translation.
To get started translating files on Transifex, follow these steps:
- Go to the Transifex website, click on login, and then create a new account.
- After verifying your account, click on the link Explore and search for Liberland.
- The Liberland organization has two translation projects: constitution and laws. Select one, click on join team, select the language you want to translate, and then wait to be approved by the administrator. If the language that you want to translate is not there, instead of clicking on join team, click request language.
- After approval, go to the Liberland dashboard and then click on the language you want to translate. Click the project constitution or laws, choose the resource to be translated, and finally click translate in the pop-up window. The rest should be obvious.
When translating, please note the following:
- The original source files are in "markdown" format and contain some text formatting characters (such as #, ##, ###, *, **, >, and §). Please keep all formatting characters in the translated text.
- If the original source file changes, the previous translation of the changed phrase will not be shown. However, Transifex does keep a record of all previous translations, and if the new phrase is similar to the previous one, transifex will suggest translated strings under the tab suggestions. Previous translations of the phrase can be found under the tab history.
To use this repo as an administrator, first enter the command
make init
This will clone the source repos into the source subdirectory of this project. This needs to be done only once. Next, type
make
This will update the source repos, push the source files to Transifex, pull any newly translated files into your project, and then convert all files to pdf, ePub, Mobi and html formats.
If new languages are added to the Transifex project, it will be necessary to modify the Makefile by adding the language code to the variables LANGCONST and/or LANGLAWS (for constitution and laws translations, respectively).
To use the makefile you will need to install both pandoc and the transifex client. The Transifex client can be installed using the command
pip install transifex-client==0.11.1.beta
The following translated files are outdated and have not been imported into Transifex. Before working on these languages, it would be useful to put these into the Transifex Project. These files will eventually be deleted.
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Czech / čeština
- Návrh Ústavy Svobodné republiky Liberland (in progress - 66%)
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Serbian / srpski / српски
- Слободна Република Либерланд – нацрт Устава (23.4.2015)