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The current way the translations are stored(a large python dict) becomes quite unhandy the more translations are added.

Translations should have one file per language - no matter the format(Python, gettext, INI) as long as it's easy to load, supports the full unicode charset and easy to translate even for people who don't have a technical background.

After Bytespeicher/space-status#2 is fixed, the new secondary status should be send to twitter as well.

We're looking for volunteers to translate the messages in wordlist.py into other languages like

• de_DE
• el_GR
• en_GB
• en_US
• es_ES
• fr_FR
• id_ID
• it_IT
• nb_NO
• nl_NL
• da_DK
• pt_BR
• pl_PL
• ro_RO
• ru_RU
• tr_TR

If you'd like to translate to a specific language please write a comment and when finished PR the changes with a mention to this issue. Please use IETF language tags. You can find a list with region/language examples here.

You don't have to translate all phrases and you don't have to translate everything word by word - every phrase is a possible composite of one list item of every one of the lists(see generate_phrase() on how compositing currently works).

The current en_US version is a mix of en_GB and en_US so both should be separated and the current en_US should be cleaned up.

The current word-list still contains Bytespeicher as a synonym for hackspace.

• Bytespeicher should be removed from all translations
• A configuration option should be introduced instead

Some languages don't work with the current SVO word ordering used by the generate_phrase function. The function should take another optional argument from wordlist that makes it use a different word ordering.

The README has several issues that need attention:

• It's missing a short introduction on what this bot does
• rst for installation instructions is broken, instructions don't show up in Github's web interface
• A CONTRIBUTING.md file containing a guide to coding standards(see Bytebot/CONTRIBUTING.md)
• Add information on how translations(see #6) should be added

Unnecessary references to project-specific parts for Bytebot should be removed.