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-<html><p id="zotero-5-update-warning" style="color: red; font-weight: bold">We’re
-in the process of updating the documentation for
-<a href="https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-5-0">Zotero 5.0</a>. Some documentation
-may be outdated in the meantime. Thanks for your understanding.</p></html>
 ====== Localization ======
 While Zotero is primarily developed in English, most parts of the Zotero ecosystem have been translated into other languages. These include the Zotero client, the wiki documentation, and the Citation Style Language (CSL) citation styles.
-===== Zotero Client =====
+===== Zotero Desktop App =====
-Translation efforts for the Zotero client exist for over 40 languages, but many languages are still incomplete. To help localizing the Zotero client in your favorite language, sign up for free at https://www.transifex.com, go to the [[https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/zotero/|Transifex Zotero project page]], and join a language translator team.
+Translation efforts for the Zotero desktop app exist for over 40 languages, but many languages are still incomplete. To help localize Zotero in your favorite language, sign up for free at https://www.transifex.com, go to the [[https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/zotero/|Transifex Zotero project page]], and join a language translator team.
-**Note** Translators should also check already translated strings, as some English strings have changed over time (predominantly to take into account that with Zotero 3.0 and later there is both Zotero for Firefox and Zotero Standalone).
+**Note** Translators should also check already translated strings, as some English strings have changed over time (predominantly to account for the move to Zotero as a standalone desktop app, rather than the Zotero for Firefox plugin).
 Translations can be tested by [[:kb/user_interface_language|changing the language of the Zotero interface]].
-===== Documentation =====
-The contents of the Zotero wiki can be translated into a number of languages. The top of each wiki page shows a row of language codes. You can move between languages by clicking a language code. Language codes are shown in black on a grey background if a page already exists for that language. Otherwise they are grey on a white background.
-The languages currently available are (languages abbreviations follow [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes | ISO 639-1]]):
-  * en - English
-  * ar - Arabic
-  * cs - Czech
-  * da - Danish
-  * de - German
-  * es - Spanish
-  * fa - Farsi
-  * fr - French
-  * hu - Hungarian
-  * it - Italian
-  * ja - Japanese
-  * ko - Korean
-  * nl - Dutch
-  * pl - Polish
-  * pt - Portuguese
-  * ru - Russian
-  * sl - Slovenian
-  * sv - Swedish
-  * tr - Turkish
-  * zh - Chinese
-If you would like to translate the wiki into a language that is currently not available, feel free to post a request on the Zotero forums to have that language added.
-For editing the Zotero wiki, see the information on [[dev/documentation|writing Zotero documentation]].
 ===== CSL Styles =====
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 To learn how to contribute to the collection of CSL locale files, and to see the status of translation, see the [[https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/wiki | CSL locale repository wiki]].
+===== Documentation =====
+We're no longer accepting translations of the Zotero documentation.
+Zotero staff and volunteers spend a lot of time making sure the official English documentation is comprehensive, accurate, up to date, and phrased carefully to avoid common misunderstandings we encounter in the forums, and there's no realistic way for non-English versions to be similarly maintained. Given that both Chrome and Safari now offer built-in machine translation of webpages, and it can be done in Firefox via extensions, we think that that will provide a better way of translating the official documentation for most users.
+We'd encourage communities that want to maintain documentation in other languages to create more manageable usage guides elsewhere without trying to mirror the full breadth, detail, and up-to-dateness of the official documentation. If you've created a resource in another language that you feel would be useful for Zotero users, let us know in the Zotero Forums and we can add a link from the official documentation.