I’d like to work on a Danish translation for codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Features …How do I do that?
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I’d like to translate the JetPack Contact Form to Danish. Can’t find it on translate.wordpress.org. I’ve seen that jetpack is on translate.wordpress.com/projects/jetpack but that seems like the wrong place to translate the .org plugin.. Should/could Jetpack be added to http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins ?
BTW: why is there two separately maintained translations tracks for .org/.com ?
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Mark Thomas Gazel
It is the right place to translate it. I guess it’s because Jetpack is partly driven by the wordpress.org cloud.
There are two seperate translation tracks because they use the same core, but are still different in many ways. I talked to @joen about it at WordCamp.
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Mikkel Breum
OK, and what about capitalization in the danish translation.. if the original string says ‘Show Wall’ do I then translate it to ‘Vis Væg’ or ‘Vis væg’?
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Zé
Almost every manual I know (and I know a few) would recommend, in your case, ‘Vis væg’. The fad of capitalizing every word in a sentence seems to stem from the Chicago Manual of Style’s rule for capitalizing titles. In WordPress it is now standard practice to capitalize almost everything, which is not only particularly annoying, but also very often confusing for determining context.
Most translators choose to ignore the capitalization and just build proper sentences.
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Mark Thomas Gazel
I concur.
I’ve avoided capitalization unless it’s a name for something e.g. Dashboard.
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Zé 12:03 pm on June 12, 2012 Permalink |
As with the question from Mexico, you should take a look at http://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_Codex first and possibly talk to the Danish team, as you may want to join efforts.
Mikkel Breum 8:08 pm on June 12, 2012 Permalink |
Thanks Zé, I came here from the page you refer to. There it says “To help translate the WordPress Codex, sign up for the Polyglots Blog and get involved.” So that’s what I did. The Danish is lead by @markthomasgazel and he’s in here too.