Translation of documentation

[sebcaps]

Describe the improvement

Currently a huge effort is done to improve accessibility for home assistant (configuration of integration using UI , automations improvements via Purpose specific triggers and conditions, rework of documentation, improvement of onboarding...)

If I understand correctly the direction of all these change is to improve usability and access.

HA supports many languages for its fronted as well as Voice Assistant thanks to a great community.
Nevertheless, the last part which is not translated is documentation.
I assume it was not a challenge for adoption (just refer to number of user), but it's a shame that documentation is not translated, in my opinion accessibility is very poor on this aspect

For sure first step is a big effort, but assisted with AI tools it could be dramastically reduced, and with help of the community, maintenance, should not be a great challenge.

In brief my feature request is : documentation available in others languages than english.

Anything else?

No response

[mib1185]

Hi @sebcaps
Most of today's popular browsers offer a website translation feature, which should be sufficient for most translation needs.
It would already require an enormous effort of the community to translate the entire documentation into just the five most widely spoken languages worldwide - there are more than 1,400 pages of integration documents, not to mention all the basic documentation pages (e.g., installation guides, automation documents, system configurations, etc.).

[mik-laj]

The translations must be maintained alongside any updates. Failure to do so will result in either outdated, inaccurate documentation in other languages or fragmented, incomplete translations. It is doable to translate all pages of documentation, but the biggest effort is then to make sure that changes from new changes appear in the translation.