JOSM I18n contest 2025

[stoecker]

I started a new contest in 2025, as I'm really unhappy with the completeness of our translations:

StartupPage contains following text:

JOSM supports 41 languages beside English. But only 7 of these (German, Spanish, Dutch, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian and Portuguese) are above 99% completeness for JOSM core. Even such important languages as French are not. I hereby challenge the JOSM users to change that situation and let 2025 be the year of the JOSM I18n contest. See Translations (and the statistics table linked there).

If you language reached 100%, there is still our help wiki needing translations: Translations/Wiki.

Note for English speakers: When you can't translate, you can help nevertheless: There are many help pages missing or needing review and improvement, see DevelopersGuide/HelpSystem/HelpTopicsList.

This ticket should be used to track progress. For the contest I'll focus on the JOSM core translations, but I hope that also means the other places when JOSM needs I18n support aren't ignored.

I'll try to report progress here each or every second week as long as there is progress.

version	ar	ast	be	bg	ca	ca@valencia	cs	cy	da	de	el	en_AU	en_GB	es	et	fa	fi	fr	gl	hu	id	is	it	ja	km
r19277	93.9	51.5	99.8	85.3	58.7	45.1	91.6	26.3	81.8	100.0	54.0	77.6	99.8	99.8	24.9	39.9	50.0	92.3	58.6	88.7	67.4	22.7	93.9	74.2	32.6
r19278	93.9	51.5	99.9	85.3	58.7	45.1	91.9	26.3	82.9	100.0	54.0	77.5	100.0	99.9	24.9	39.8	50.0	100.0	58.7	89.6	67.4	22.7	96.1	74.2	32.5
r19283	93.8	51.5	99.9	85.3	58.6	45.1	91.9	26.3	83.0	100.0	54.0	77.5	99.9	99.9	24.9	39.8	50.0	99.9	58.7	89.6	67.4	22.7	98.0	74.2	32.5
r19287	100.0	51.5	99.9	85.2	58.6	45.1	91.9	26.4	83.1	100.0	54.0	77.5	99.9	99.9	24.9	39.8	50.0	99.9	58.7	89.6	77.8	22.7	99.9	74.2	32.5
r19298	99.8	51.4	99.7	85.1	58.5	45.1	91.7	26.3	83.2	100.0	53.9	77.4	99.8	99.7	24.9	39.8	49.9	99.7	58.6	89.5	77.7	22.6	99.8	74.1	32.5
r19306	99.7	51.3	99.6	85.0	58.5	45.0	91.7	26.3	83.6	100.0	53.9	77.3	99.8	100.0	24.9	39.8	49.8	99.7	58.5	89.4	77.6	22.6	100.0	74.0	32.5

version	ko	lt	mr	nb	nl	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	sv	tr	uk	vi	zh_CN	zh_TW
r19277	66.3	54.3	30.5	75.6	99.8	83.3	99.4	94.8	99.8	86.4	38.1	61.9	54.7	99.7	52.5	83.8	83.8
r19278	66.3	54.3	30.5	75.6	99.9	84.2	99.6	95.1	99.9	86.4	38.1	61.9	54.7	99.7	52.5	84.0	83.8
r19283	66.5	54.3	30.5	76.0	99.9	84.4	99.6	95.3	99.9	86.4	38.1	63.4	54.7	100.0	52.5	84.1	83.8
r19287	66.5	54.3	30.4	76.0	99.9	84.4	99.6	95.3	99.9	86.4	38.1	77.3	54.7	99.9	52.5	84.1	83.9
r19298	66.4	54.2	30.4	75.9	99.9	84.2	99.4	95.1	99.7	86.3	38.0	96.6	54.6	99.7	52.4	84.1	83.8
r19306	67.0	54.2	30.4	75.8	99.9	84.2	100.0	99.0	99.9	86.2	38.0	100.0	54.6	99.9	52.4	84.0	83.7

[stoecker]

Starting State (r19277):

de	en_GB	es	nl	be	ru	uk	pt	pt_BR	ar	it	fr	cs	hu	sk	bg	zh_CN	zh_TW	pl	da	en_AU	nb	ja	id	ko
100.0	99.8	99.8	99.8	99.8	99.8	99.7	99.4	94.8	93.9	93.9	92.3	91.6	88.7	86.4	85.3	83.8	83.8	83.3	81.8	77.6	75.6	74.2	67.4	66.3

sv	ca	gl	tr	lt	el	vi	ast	fi	ca@valencia	fa	sr@latin	km	mr	cy	et	is
61.9	58.7	58.6	54.7	54.3	54.0	52.5	51.5	50.0	45.1	39.9	38.1	32.6	30.5	26.3	24.9	22.7

[stoecker]

Seems some languages accepted my contest: The new state is

de	en_GB	fr	be	es	nl	ru	uk	pt	it	pt_BR	ar	cs	hu	sk	bg	pl	zh_CN	zh_TW	da	en_AU	nb	ja	id	ko
100.0	100.0	100.0	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.7	99.6	96.1	95.1	93.9	91.9	89.6	86.4	85.3	84.2	84.0	83.8	82.9	77.5	75.6	74.2	67.4	66.3

sv	gl	ca	tr	lt	el	vi	ast	fi	ca@valencia	fa	sr@latin	km	mr	cy	et	is
61.9	58.7	58.7	54.7	54.3	54.0	52.5	51.5	50.0	45.1	39.8	38.1	32.5	30.5	26.3	24.9	22.7

Changes:

• French people took the bait and translated everything. Yeah!
• Italian did nearly half the work to reach 100%

P.S. For everybody wanting to help: Automatic translation has become much better over the years: For me ​https://www.deepl.com e.g. speeds up the work, as in contrast to the situation in the past you now can use the translation with small modifications. Years ago it was much faster to translate text from scratch compared to correcting automatic translations.

[skyper]

add table for better comparison of progress

[stoecker]

Sort by language code.

[stoecker]

Added note about Wiki and English speakers.

[stoecker]

In 19283/josm:

see #24067 - I18n update

[stoecker]

Not much progress in the last week. Italian improved, but still did not reach 100%.

de	uk	be	en_GB	es	fr	nl	ru	pt	it	pt_BR	ar	cs	hu	sk	bg	pl	zh_CN	zh_TW	da	en_AU	nb	ja	id	ko
100.0	100.0	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.6	98.0	95.3	93.8	91.9	89.6	86.4	85.3	84.4	84.1	83.8	83.0	77.5	76.0	74.2	67.4	66.5

sv	gl	ca	tr	lt	el	vi	ast	fi	ca@valencia	fa	sr@latin	km	mr	cy	et	is
63.4	58.7	58.6	54.7	54.3	54.0	52.5	51.5	50.0	45.1	39.8	38.1	32.5	30.5	26.3	24.9	22.7

[aat765]

My apologies for the delay in providing the Arabic translation updates. Previously, I was actively involved in ensuring the Arabic translation was up-to-date and comprehensive for all of JOSM's text. I'll be consistently available going forward to maintain and update the Arabic translation for the JOSM editor. Thank you for your dedication to this fantastic software!

[stoecker]

Whoa, if not one of the others tops that, tomorrow you'll win the "update cup" ;-)

[stoecker]

In 19287/josm:

I18n update, see #24067

[stoecker]

Really good progress this week: Italian and Arabic reached the target, but last weeks most effort price goes to Sweden: +14%. Indonesian with 10% is second place ;-)

I moved translations from wikipedia and pt_assistant back to our standard Launchpad system, copied and fixed the translations. Nevertheless as Transifex was incomplete for some languages there is new work to do.

[stoecker]

No progress for most languages this week, instead the complete ones are loosing percentage again. Biggest exception: Sweden is on the finish line, thanks to Joel Grafström.

[aharvey]

For en_AU and all the other en_* variants, is the intention to have translators only fill in those where the translation is different, or do you want 100% completion even if 99% are unchanged?

As a translator for en_AU, it's easier to maintain if we only store what's different, and then fallback to en. Thoughts?

[stoecker]

Replying to aharvey:

For en_AU and all the other en_* variants, is the intention to have translators only fill in those where the translation is different, or do you want 100% completion even if 99% are unchanged?

Yes. Please. Reason: There is no other way to verify whether a text is reviewed or not. JOSM texts constantly change (usually additions, but sometimes also modifications) and different people are working on this. The only way to keep track is mark unchanged texts as "done" by copying them (with one click :-).

As a translator for en_AU, it's easier to maintain if we only store what's different, and then fallback to en. Thoughts?

The resulting translation file josm/trunk/resources/data/en_AU.lang​ (see ref file josm/trunk/resources/data/en.lang​ for all texts) does not contain identical strings, but only a marker whether it is missing or identical (----- or +++++ in the ASCII view). So there is no disadvantage of storing identical translations.

Note the above links are only for the core texts. But the wiki will display all translation files this way, but if you want to see it you need to go to each plugin individually...

P.S. Please do not use the translation to fix bugs in original strings. Rather report them in a ticket to be fixed in the original...

[stoecker]

Lots of progress for Swedish and Brazilian, so I did an early update.

[stoecker]

P.S. If someone noticed help is wanted because now a picture is there as eye catcher please tell me (A picture is worth a thousand words). I want to know if advertising helped ;-) Note that there was a text message of similar content in the last 4 weeks.

P.P.S. It's not one picture by the way...

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