Online interface of Group Libraries - Language

Hello,

My apologies if this questions has been asked before.

I work for a not-for-profit organization (based in Canada) that recently adopted Zotero as its citation management system. The head office functions mostly in English, but we have four regional offices around the world, including one in Uruguay. In that office, employees' computer systems are in English, including Firefox. However, group libraries is one of the main features they want to use in order to share and collaborate with researchers in Latin America, a number of whom can work only in Spanish. On our computers, Zotero is in English, which is fine. But the online interface of the group libraries we have created is also in English, at least to us. If we invite other researchers to become members of a group, will they have the opportunity to see the online interface of the group library in Spanish or is it only available in English? When these new members create a Zotero account in order to accept an invitation, can they choose a language? I don't remember seeing that option. If that online interface is available in other languages, how can they switch once they are looking at a group library?

Thank you for your help.
  • The online interface on zotero.org (as pretty much everything on zotero.org except part of the support wiki) is English only and I don't believe there are any plans to offer translated versions.
    That said, groups also work in the Zotero client (add-on or Standalone) and as you know that is available in translations - for that the language depends on the individual users setting, not on the way the group has been set up.
  • Thank you adamsmith. My question focused on the online interface for groups because it is not clear that everyone who is invited to become a member will be interested in installing Zotero on their computers beyond the creation of a Zotero account. But I see how it would be a workaround in order to have a Spanish interface.
  • Hello :)

    I'm working for the "Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur" in Mainz (Germany) and I've been using zotero for creating a list of publications of the academy. The purpose of it is to create a link to the zotero group library on the homepage of our Akademie for making the list of publications available for interested users.
    As melbphd75 in March 2014, I can use the preferred language (in my case: German) for working with the zotero add-on (that's what I do), but unfortunately I haven't found a possibility to change the English interface of the group library into German (so that the categories etc. remain in English).
    Now I have just found melbphd75's question in this discussion and adamsmith's helping answer to it.

    Since the information concerning this question is more than 1,5 years ago, I'd like to know whether now there is a possibility to get/make a translated version of the group library on zotero.org or at least plans for offering it in future?

    Thanks a lot for your help!
  • no, nothing has changed about this.
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