Help us bring almalinux.org to more languages

Key points

AlmaLinux is asking native speakers to help translate almalinux.org. As of October 28, 2026, the site has 1,121 translatable strings across more than 30 languages, and many of those languages are well short of complete.

How site translation works

• Navigation, buttons, page sections and other shared site text are stored as translation files in the website's GitHub repository. Blog posts are not included.
• Translations are submitted through Weblate, an open source web-based translation platform. No Git, Hugo or coding knowledge is needed: contributors sign in, choose a language and translate strings one by one in the browser.
• Weblate periodically packages saved translations into a pull request on the website repository.
• A Promo SIG (Special Interest Group) member checks the pull request for obvious errors, then merges it, and the new text goes live on the site.
• Review usually takes one or two days, depending on reviewer availability.
• The project wiki has a step-by-step guide with screenshots.

Guidelines for contributors

• Translate only into a language you speak natively. The project notes that machine translation nearly always reads poorly to native speakers.
• Suggesting improvements to existing translations is as welcome as filling in missing strings.
• To add a language that is not listed, request it from the project page in Weblate or open a GitHub issue.

Current status by language (as of October 28)

• Fully or nearly complete: Swedish (100%), Ukrainian (100%), Indonesian (99%), Russian (99%) and Kazakh (98%).
• Simplified Chinese is at 97%. It and Russian both rose sharply in the past week.
• Indonesian, Kazakh and Tamil were added this summer.
• Half done or more: Spanish (78%), Tamil (65%), Portuguese (52%) and French (50%). Most of these were close to complete before, but site content changes have reopened gaps.
• Figures change constantly as site text is added or edited.

Where help is most needed

• Languages with many AlmaLinux users that are near the halfway mark: German (49%), Japanese (49%), Brazilian Portuguese (47%), Italian (39%) and Arabic (37%).
• Further behind: Finnish (33%), Hebrew (32%), Czech (25%), Polish (24%), Turkish (20%), Slovak (19%), Hungarian (14%), Korean (13%) and Catalan (13%).
• Barely started: Persian (8%), Serbian (8%), Greek (5%), Latvian (4%) and Lithuanian (3%).
• Not yet started: Danish, Estonian and Esperanto.
• Swahili (Kiswahili) was just added at community request and has no translations yet.

Contributors credited

• Long-time translators:
• bittin (Swedish since 2023, the largest contributor overall)
• eulalio (Spanish since 2023)
• Hotripak (Ukrainian since 2024, brought it to 100%)
• Kyotaro Iijima (Japanese since 2021)
• Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (Spanish since 2021)
• Rodrigo de Avila (Brazilian Portuguese since 2023)
• Earlier major contributors: gallegonovato (Spanish), Yaron Shahrabani and Noam Alum (Hebrew), Takuya Wakazono and Souta Kawahara (Japanese), and Максим Горпиніч (Ukrainian).
• Recent progress:
• Andrei Stepanov (Russian to 99%)
• Ziki Shay with xiezhihai, eNoWater, Lezhe Gao and Ziqi Shen (Simplified Chinese past 90%)
• Arif Budiman (Indonesian to 99%)
• Baurzhan Muftakhidinov (Kazakh to 98%)
• Opam (Italian)
• Many others contributed this year to Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Serbian, Persian and Tamil.
• The Weblate team is thanked for hosting the project, and Promo SIG members for reviewing every translation pull request.
• Translators who were left out can say so in the Promo SIG channel to be added.

How to join

• Create a Weblate account, open the AlmaLinux project, select your language and start translating. The project says even ten strings make a difference.
• Questions can go to the Promo SIG channel on the AlmaLinux chat server or to [email protected].

Summary by DistroNews, based on the original post.