11 May 2026, 13:40

Hello everyone,

With the Mahara 26.04 release, we are using a new translation tool, Weblate. Launchpad retired vital infrastructure for translations, and thus we needed to look for a new option to help community members translating Mahara. We settled on Weblate, which is used by other open source software projects and comes with a good set of features, including suggestions and discussions around particular strings.

Currently, the following languages are available for Mahara 26.04:

• Arabic
• Catalan
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Spanish
• te reo Māori

Weblate comes with some handy translation tools if you are looking to translate Mahara directly from within your browser:

• Identification of double spaces, mitmatched punctuation and line breaks
• Zen mode for translating that shows a continuous list of strings
• Suggestions / reviews
• Discussion
• Cloning of existing text
• Automatic suggestions from a couple of built-in machine translation tools - to be used with caution as they sometimes display interesting results

If you want to help translate Mahara, you can sign up on Weblate and then let me know so I can add you to the translation team. We can import other languages from Launchpad to be translated if your preferred language is not yet represented.

Thank you

Kristina