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+# Oragono's Translations
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+These translations have been contributed by amazing people using [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/oragono). If you'd like to fix up a mistake or help add a language, feel free to pop over there! Always interested in new contributors and language support.
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+Contributors to translations are noted in the translation's info file (the `yaml` file). You shouldn't be touching these files manually – they should be getting updated through CrowdIn. However, the `example` files exist if you want a reference for the format. To regenerate the `example` files (that get fed into CrowdIn), look at the `updatetranslations.py` file in the source directory.
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+My eventual intent is to use these translations to help create a standard set that other IRC software authors can see, download, and use in their own software (with proper attribution to the contributors, of course).