# How does one decide if a translation should be made?

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**Category:** Translations\
**Created:** [2017 年 11 月 30 日午前 11:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-one-decide-if-a-translation-should-be-made/75085 "2017-11-30T11:50:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [2017 年 11 月 30 日午後 12:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-one-decide-if-a-translation-should-be-made/75085/2 "2017-11-30T12:06:42Z")

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The best reason for contributing a language is if you’re going to be participating in a community that will actually use it. Otherwise you will not have an incentive to keep up with subsequent releases that require translation updates and the language pack will go stale.

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