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Plugin Translators Wanted

White Shadow — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:16:35 +0000

I’ve recently added internationalization support to my Broken Link Checker plugin, so if you like the plugin and would like to see it in your own language, consider contributing a translation! So far people are working, or have already sent in, localization files for the following languages :

Italian (complete; even got two – by Gianni Diurno and by Giacomo Ross. Whoops, my fault.)
Danish (complete; by Georg S. Adamsen)
Chinese, Simplified (complete; by HankYang)
Dutch (complete; by Gideon van Melle)
German (complete; by Alex Frison)
French (complete; by Whiler)

If you’d like to create your own localization, please notify me via a comment or an email first so that I can add you to the list above. Otherwise we might get (another) tricky situation with two users sending in two independent translations for the same language.

Here are some useful resources related to plugin translation :

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