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Project overview

The goals of SDG Translations are:

  1. To compile text related to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
  2. To translate that text into as many languages as possible
  3. To provide those translations in both machine-readable and human-readable formats

Machine-readable

This project was built to support SDG reporting platforms, by making it easier to translate those platforms into multiple languages. To accomplish this, the translations are available in machine-readable JSON format. For more technical information, see the developers page.

Human-readable

In order to make it easy to audit and expand this set of translations, this project also provides some user-friendly tools for translators. On the translators page there are spreadsheets available for each language. Additionally there is a search page where translators can look up particular items to get more detailed context about how a word/phrase is intended to be used.

Contibuting and forking

Forking of this repository is encouraged, especially for maintaining translations that are specific to a particular platform. However any useful translations are welcome to be contributed back, as “pull requests”. If you are unsure how to submit a pull request, simply start things off with a note in the issue queue.