# Adding Bulgarian to dropdown
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [May 28, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568 "2018-05-28T07:26:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@orlink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orlink)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/1 "2018-05-28T07:26:58Z")
Hi, I do not see Bulgarian in the dropdown for selecting the default language of the instance I just installed. I see Bulgarian partially translated (~70% of client.yml) on transifex. I see other partially translated languages in the dropdown. I would like to be able to switch the forum to Bulgarian to demo it.
What should I do?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/2 "2018-05-28T08:11:13Z")
> [@orlink](#):
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> What should I do?
You will need to add Bulgarian language to Discourse. Here is the howto:
> [@How to add a new language](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-a-new-language/14970):
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> Contribute translations The first step is to do some translating in [our Crowdin workspace](https://translate.discourse.org/). Create an account and start translating in one or more languages. See [Contributing translations to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contribute-a-translation-to-discourse/14882) for more information about that. Add language to Discoursewarning These instructions are currently out of date! You have two options when you think that the translation is ready to be included in Discourse: Post in this topic and ask for your language to be included in Discourse. There m…
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### Author:  [@orlink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orlink)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/3 "2018-05-28T11:36:34Z")
Thank you for quick answer. I cloned the repository and downloaded and carefully renamed the files from transifex for Bulgarian as per the instructions. I then pressed the button “Commit to master” from the Github Desktop. I am not too experienced with Github. How do I send a pull request? I tried creating a branch too, but it won’t let me push it to the repository.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/4 "2018-05-28T14:00:52Z")
You’ll need to make a pull request from a fork of Discourse, since you don’t have permission to push to the Discourse repo. Here are two articles that can help you:
> **[Working with forks - GitHub Docs](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks)**
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> Forks are often used in open source development on GitHub.
> **[Creating a pull request from a fork - GitHub Docs](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork)**
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> You can create a pull request to propose changes you've made to a fork of an upstream repository.
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### Author:  [@orlink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orlink)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/5 "2018-05-29T07:38:14Z")
Hi, Thanks for the tip. I had just forgotten.
I have now forked, added the resource files and sent a pull request. When will the files be available to update my instance?
Best
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/6 "2018-05-29T11:05:20Z")
Thanks for your contribution!
I’m really sorry to say that the old Howto you followed was quite out-of-date and we can’t accept the PR in its current state. 😳
You can try following the updated guide if you feel up to it. Otherwise we can help you with that.
> [@How to add a new language](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-a-new-language/14970):
>
> Contribute translations The first step is to do some translating in [our Crowdin workspace](https://translate.discourse.org/). Create an account and start translating in one or more languages. See [Contributing translations to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contribute-a-translation-to-discourse/14882) for more information about that. Add language to Discoursewarning These instructions are currently out of date! You have two options when you think that the translation is ready to be included in Discourse: Post in this topic and ask for your language to be included in Discourse. There m…
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### Author:  [@orlink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orlink)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/7 "2018-05-29T12:03:55Z")
Thanks! I have posted a request for help in that thread as suggested. I would have loved to have been able do everything myself, but I only have a windows 7 machine.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/8 "2018-05-29T19:11:28Z")
Done. 🇧🇬
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/864ada835b2d1d0483950e02a9ef62c14f8e0519](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/864ada835b2d1d0483950e02a9ef62c14f8e0519)
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### Author:  [@orlink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orlink)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/9 "2018-05-30T09:50:49Z")
It worked! Thank you very much!!!
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulgarian-to-dropdown/88568/10 "2018-06-01T09:50:58Z")
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