Public projects

Public projects allow anyone in your community to join and contribute translations. They are useful when you want to crowdsource translation for open-source projects, community-driven apps, or products with an active user base. Use public projects to involve your community in the localization process, translate content faster, and reach a wider audience by adding more languages over time.

How it works

Make a project public

To make your project public, go to the project Settings page and enable the Make project public option. A shareable link will appear below. Save the settings to activate it.

Share your public project

Once your project is public, you can share it with your community using the shareable link. Send the link directly, or use the social sharing buttons to spread the word and increase visibility.

The public project page gives visitors a quick overview of your project, including overall translation progress, the number of string keys, and supported languages. Each language also displays its own translation stats.

Anyone interested in contributing can request to join directly from this page.

Review join requests

By default, join requests require manual approval. The project owner and admins can review, approve, or reject pending requests from the Contributors page.

If you prefer a more open approach, you can enable auto-approval in the project settings to automatically accept all join requests.

Manage permissions for approved contributors

Approved contributors receive the Translator role by default. They do not have reviewer access and can only work with the languages selected in their join request.

The project owner and admins can update contributor permissions at any time from the Contributors page, including which languages contributors can translate or use as reference languages.