How translations are approved, and how do we pick admins

Mendasp

First, you will notice that some translations have tons of strings translated, yet they are at 0% progress, this is because the percentage reflects how many approved strings that language has. This is a process reviewed by an admin. We intend to have at least one native speaker per translation, as this will guarantee a higher standard of quality than if we only relied on votes or an automatic system. Now, how do we choose admins?

I've already picked a few admins for the translations, but it's hard to judge who will do a good job, so it's a slow process. I'm going to try to get a way to see how much every user is contributing through the translation tool, if they follow the guidelines, etc. It won't be the only way to get noticed/chosen to approve the translations. I'm monitoring all the threads in this forum, even if I don't understand a single thing, at least I can see people being active about translations and discussing them, so that's a good way to notice who's involved in the projects or not. The posts in the big news post thread have helped me pick people too.

I have also consulted people I know that are native speakers of a few of the languages being translated to know who was doing a good job at it so I could pick someone, as I obviously cannot judge how good of a translation it is if I'm not a native speaker.

<b>Admins:</b>
Bulgarian - WildBeast
Chinese (Simplified) - axamdeep
Chinese (Traditional) - nggdowt
Croatian - ArcLight
Czech - gage
Dutch - Angelusz
English (British) - Obraxis
French - Atlan/Regnareb
German - Koruyo
Italian - cico
Japanese - a8085
Korean - MzMz
Norwegian - Thrillseeker/tankefugl
Polish - AceDude
Portuguese (Brazil) - hit321
Russian - Well
Spanish - Mendasp
Swedish - Jibrail (retired) - Agiel
Turkish - agassparkle

<b>Translations without admins:</b>
Arabic
Danish
Finnish
Greek
Hungarian
Lithuanian
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Slovak


Post here if you have any doubts (or recommendations for people!).

Mendasp

Updated with list of admins.

hit321

How can we know if some language will be launched on the game? And when?

Mendasp

I have no idea, they said translations wouldn't go out with 1.0, so I suppose they'll announce their plans when they're ready (we're still missing support for certain characters/alphabets).