Weblate is an
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...
web-based translation tool with
version control
Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling, organizing, and tracking different versions in history of computer files; primarily source code t ...
. It includes several hundred languages with basic definitions, and enables the addition of more language definitions, all definitions can be edited by the web community or a defined set of people, as well as through integrating machine translation, such as
DeepL Translator
DeepL Translator is a neural machine translation service that was launched in August 2017 and is owned by Cologne-based DeepL SE. The translating system was first developed within Linguee and launched as entity ''DeepL''. It initially offered t ...
, Amazon Translate, or
Google Translate
Google Translate is a multilingualism, multilingual neural machine translation, neural machine translation service developed by Google to translation, translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a web applic ...
.
Stated goals
Weblate aims to facilitate web-based translation with tight
Git
Git () is a distributed version control system that tracks versions of files. It is often used to control source code by programmers who are developing software collaboratively.
Design goals of Git include speed, data integrity, and suppor ...
integration for a wide range of file formats, helping translators contribute without knowledge of Git workflow.
Translations closely follow development, as they are hosted within the same repository as the source code.
There is no plan for heavy conflict resolution, as it is argued these should primarily be handled on the Git side.
Project name
The project's name is a
portmanteau
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. of words
web
Web most often refers to:
* Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal
* World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system
Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:
Computing
* WEB, a literate programming system created by ...
and
translate
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...
.
Notable uses
These are some projects using Weblate:
*
Godot Engine
*
Blender
A blender (sometimes called a mixer (from Latin ''mixus, the PPP of miscere eng. to Mix)'' or liquidiser in British English) is a kitchen and laboratory appliance used to mix, crush, purée or emulsify food and other substances. A stationary ...
*
FreePBX
FreePBX is a web-based open-source graphical user interface (GUI) that manages Asterisk, a voice over IP (VoIP) and telephony server.
FreePBX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3, with commercial modules available under the ...
*
OsmAnd
OsmAnd (; OpenStreetMap Automated Navigation Directions) is a free and open-source map and navigation app for Android and iOS. It uses the OpenStreetMap (OSM) map database for its primary displays, but is an independent app not endorsed by the ...
*
phpMyAdmin
*
Organic Maps
Organic Maps is a free and open-source, offline navigation app that uses map data from OpenStreetMap. The application is designed to function without internet connectivity by downloading maps for offline use. Organic Maps emphasizes privacy, as i ...
*
Unknown Horizons
''Unknown Horizons'' is a city-building game and real-time strategy game, inspired by the ''Anno'' series. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) and is therefore free and open source software. Much of the artwork is open ...
* OpenPetra
*
Turris Omnia
*
Debian Handbook
*
LibreOffice
LibreOffice () is a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was created in 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice.org, itself a successor to StarOffice. The suite includes applications ...
and
Collabora Online
Collabora Online is an open source online office suite based on LibreOffice, enabling web-based collaborative real-time editing of word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and vector graphics. Optional apps are available for deskto ...
*
Monero
Monero (; Abbreviation: XMR) is a cryptocurrency which uses a blockchain with privacy-enhancing technologies to obfuscate transactions to achieve anonymity and fungibility. Observers cannot decipher addresses trading Monero, transaction amount ...
*
openSUSE
openSUSE () is a free and open-source software, free and open-source Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project. It is offered in two main variations: ''Tumbleweed'', an upstream rolling release distribution, and ''Leap'', a stable r ...
*
Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems, also known as OJS, is an open source and free software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals, created by the Public Knowledge Project, and released under the GNU General Public License.
History
Open Journa ...
*
H5P
*
Kodi
Kodi may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* KODI, a radio station in Cody, Wyoming, USA
* Kodi (film), ''Kodi'' (film), India, 2016
* Kodi, a dog in the 2004 film ''Balto III: Wings of Change''
Other uses
* Kodi (software), an open sour ...
* CryptPad
*
ParaView
ParaView is an open-source multiple-platform application for interactive, scientific visualization. It has a client–server architecture to facilitate remote visualization of datasets, and generates level of detail (LOD) models to maintain in ...
* SCP: Secret Laboratory
See also
*
Translate Toolkit
*
Translation memory
A translation memory (TM) is a database that stores "segments", which can be sentences, paragraphs or sentence-like units (headings, titles or elements in a list) that have previously been translated, in order to aid human translators. The trans ...
*
Computer-assisted translation
Computer-aided translation (CAT), also referred to as computer-assisted translation or computer-aided human translation (CAHT), is the use of software, also known as a translator, to assist a human translator in the translation process. The tr ...
References
External links
* {{Official website
Free software programmed in Python
Collaborative translation web platform
Technology companies of the Czech Republic