Launchpad Help > Translations > Using translation guidelines in Launchpad

Overview

In Launchpad, each administrator of a localization team can inform Launchpad about the team's guidelines.

As a result translators working at projects assigned to the team, will see a big banner informing them about the guidelines.

All new translators have good intentions and they want to submit translations of good quality, but they lack experience and domain knowledge about software translations. The existence of translation guidelines should help new translators to achive good quality even when doing their first suggestions.

To help you with creating the guidelines for your team you may consult the general Launchpad Guidelines.

Let Launchpad know about your guidelines

In order to inform Launchpad about the guidelines for your team, all you have to do is to consult https://translations.launchpad.net/people/+me your translations personal page. You should see a table similar with this one:

Click the edit icon next to each translation team and put the link to your guidelines.