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Is there a way to export the results of a filter. I need all the unverified translations of bbPress 2.2 in arabic (nothing is approved yet).
I tought using the export would work, but it exports only the source strings, not the translations.
Thank you.
Should we change the title of http://ar.wordpress.org, from “Arabic” to “العربية”, to keep it consistent with the other rosetta sites?
Yeah , that will be cool , Thanks Ze 
Done
Ze , I need you in the IRC if you have time now
Sure
I’ve deployed Rosetta for ar, as requested, but you really need to change that screenshot… It looks like 2.1, from 2007 
You can upload a new one here: http://ar.wordpress.org/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header
I’m going to change the screenshot.
Anyway I miss wp 2.1
Hi
I would gladly help with the arabic translation on bbPress and other projects I use heavily, but I see that strings are not validates here, I already tried to get in touch but couldn’t get answers.
Please advise.
Thanks
Unhapilly, the arabic efforts are not the most promising, I decided not to participate at any WordPress project at all after seeing that the arabic community forums has:
Serious disrespect of legal ownership means many themeforest hosted on the community website and available for free!
Ok, this needs discussing, and right here is the best place to do it for now. Could you elaborate on the “monopoly” issue? Could we have also Rasheed‘s take on this?
many themeforest hosted on the community website and available for free!
Could you please point me to the site in question?
many Themeforest themes hosted on the community website and available for free!
1st question will be answered too.
Ze, to answer your question about monopoly:
I want a space ruled by FOSS rules.
If a community using that space doesn’t care, the leader(s) must educate it by spreading the FOSS philosophy troughout his/her/their participation on translations, code, forums posts, meetings, etc.
Unhapilly, the arabic community website is a place for ads, self marketing of the owner efforts, warez and some useful article. Yet, it is not open source at this time and this is not very welcoming to arabic open source servants.
I’ve emailed Rasheed personally, alerting him to the the very serious issues, and not only those concerning the validator acceptance. Running a website billing itself as the “The official arabic translation and technical support for WP” which apparently hosts warez and illegal files is *not* ok, nor is it ok to include links to it in the official translation. Be it as it may, translations are meant to be a collective effort, done by people who can validate each other. Running it alone is neither a good idea nor is it recommended.
Some more “paid” stuff made free:
Just about http://wp-ar.com: you have to understand that the site is in no way “official”, the only official one is http://ar.wordpress.org. I’d recommend as step #1 to get in touch with Theme Forest to alert them (I’ll ping them privately too) and any other theme author who is being ripped off.
If that site is indeed under Rasheed’s supervision (which I can’t tell, because I can’t read Arabic), then this is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with. I’d like to let him have his say on this whole thing first, though.
there is a link in http://ar.wordpress.org/ pointing to http://www.ar-wp.com/ in the installation section (do not know arabic, but using google translator)
Correction: it’s http://ar-wp.com
Right, typo.
Yes, you are right, it’s not official, but on Rasheed blog it’s called “The official arabic translation and technical support for WP”.
Furthermore, in the admin area of all arabic websites you see this in the footer: “Thank you for using WP arabic” with a link to http://ar-wp.com.
And yes you are right, the site is owned and supervized by Rasheed as seen on his blog and the domain name whois record.
Thank you for your effort, those poor guys should know that their being ripped off on a very popular website! I too started to contact some those themes owners.
To explain things Rasheed wrote the “offical translator” not the offical website !! , there are a big difference
Just adding some more facts:
Anyways, I join my effort to Ze’s and demand an explanation from Rasheed, right here, the earlier the better.
You make a mistake here !!
The link :
http://www.ar-wp.com/feed/
It is not Rasheed blog ! , it’s the community blog ! , and
we open it before a few days , See think link please :
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums/topic/4999/
We are looking for people to publish in the new blog , Rasheed has copy some of posts from his personal blog , just to test !
And about the illegal themes , We removed many themes and plugins and banned users from the forums even before your report .. we have a strict rules about that in our community , but after all maybe some of theme are still in forums and we need everyone help to get rid of them !
Please be patient, and if possible, do not write anything until you get my update on this.
Hello Nabil and Ze,
Thanks for turning my attention to this post.
I see a lot of issues raised here. I will address each issue separately to clarify things.
1. Regarding the claim “There is only one Arabic validator which says I don’t want unauthorized people to have access to the Translation I am working hard for it.”:
I never said that, on the contrary I always try to encourage people to participate in projects in GlotPress. As evidence here is a post I wrote in 2010, in which I explain to people how to use the GlotPress and also writes general guidelines for translation:
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t23970.html
So if you define it as a monopoly then you are wrong. Translation in GlotPress is open to everyone, but not everyone qualified to be validator. Validator *must* understand and control both languages as well. Imagine that anyone can be validator, this will lead to a chaos. Do you agree?
2. Regarding the claim “No glossary, only a few discussions about some terms and other discussions asking people to participate without giving them clues but a link to glotpress”:
I’m not going to teach people how to translate. People who do not understand the English language will not be able to translate into Arabic. In the previous link I provided I have explained how to translate and wrote general guidelines to make the translation job easier and accessible for many people as possible.
3. Regarding the claim “Serious disrespect of legal ownership”:
We *DN NOT* host warez and illegal files. Absolutely we will not allow any illegal activity in our forums. Our forum has more than 37000 members and active since 2006. If you find a few violation links, that does not mean we agree with that. I am against any legal violation. As you know, in forums, it is difficult to keep track of all topics and replies. If you find any violation links then please notify me, it will be removed immediately.
Ze, you can read the rules of our forums here, I refer you to point number 3. (Google Translation):
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ar&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ar-wp.com%2Fforums-archive%2Fannouncement.php%3Fa%3D6
It’s not fair on the basis of 0.01% violations (which we didn’t notice) to say we are a warez site. This is very annoying and insulting.
Meanwhile I have deactivated the themes forums section to check the content again and be sure that there is no any kind of legal violation.
4. Regarding the claim “Invalidated string that exist for months”:
Where do you see Invalidated string that exist for months ?
http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/ar/default (99%)
http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/admin/ar/default (97%)
http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/admin/network/ar/default (96%)
All themes (Twenty Twelve) (Twenty Ten) (Twenty Eleven) are 100% Translated.
http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/ar/default (bbPress in good condition 79% And I’m still working on it)
There are many other projects at GlotPress:
http://translate.wordpress.org/projects
If you expect me as a validator to take it all on myself then you are wrong. These projects are open to the community and unfortunately only a small minority willing to contribute and participate in these projects.
5. Regarding the claim “The Arabic translation is full of obvious mistakes (أضف تعليق, لا يوجد مسودّات, ), probably due to weak revision process (once validated, never revised)”
Can you give me a permalink for this string?
Please note, I personally check every translated string in detail, I even check the context of the translation to be sure that the translation is right. I do not translate in a superficial way! My translation must be the highest quality! I choose the right words, in the right context, I make sure where to place the point, the comma, the quotation marks. I keep a uniform translation. I constantly correct mistakes if I discover. I say this with full confidence.
I always try to contribute for improving WordPress whether for it’s Arabic translation or whether it has to do for RTL:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/search?q=rasheed&noquickjump=1&changeset=on&milestone=on&ticket=on&wiki=on
Nabil, I am active in WordPress Arabic since 2006 and never seen your contribution.
6. Regarding the claim “I believe that that, as a validator, the person should aim to build a community of good programmers and linguists that should work together to make WP better” :
I never rejected an initiative of someone who wants to help or contribute. You have to understand, I’m validator I’m not Superman. I make every effort to contribute to and promote the subject of WordPress in Arabic because I love WordPress!
As I said earlier, these projects are open to all community, you’re welcome to join us and contribute. If you think you can be a validator and you are willing to contribute and give from your time then you’re welcome. I do not know what monopoly you’re talking about! This is a nonsensical claim!
I want validators with responsibility to be in my team. I have no problem having even a team of 20 validators if we all work in coordination.
The problem in the Arab world is that *people have learned to take and still have not learned to give*. I do not know where are you from, but I know the mentality of the internet Arab users. There are many reports on this subject, you can search Google.
7. Regarding the claim “Being a validator doesn’t grant a person the rights to link to his/her website in WordPress translations (po) or link –in the wordpress dashboard–“:
I’m very surprised, where do you see I am linking to my blog? Can you give me a link please?
8. Regarding the claim “As a validator, one should encourage people to fill the Arabic Codex”:
Where did you read that?!
The Codex is a wiki, meaning anyone can edit it.
Instead of just complaining, have you ever translated a single word in the codex?
I alone can’t educate a nation.
In my forum I give the maximum and as I told you if you have ideas for improvements you’re welcome to join us.
9. Regarding the claim “As a validator, one should update the main WP.og Arabic download page”:
Wordpress-ar is released by me in time since 2006.
I do not have complete control over the site ar.wordpress.org so we have ar-wp.com forum where we have more control and flexibility. If you want to add content to ar.wordpress.org you are welcome to do it, just ask Ze fo that.
10. Regarding the claim “As a validator, if one praises himself/herself, he/she should praise other participants too”:
Where I praise myself?! Can you give a quote or a link?
Don’t you think it’s an infantile claim?
11. Regarding the claim “The community website should not –I believe– be a place for selling all the real estate above the fold”:
We don’t sell anything. We only sell a few ads to cover the cost of our dedicated server. We do not sell themes or plugins. This claim is false.
Regardless, many people make their living from work related to WordPress, so I don’t understand your point.
12. Regarding the claim “The official arabic translation and technical support for WP”:
I never claimed that ar-wp.com is the official web site of WordPress! It’s a serious distortion and play on words!
In the past a lot of people tend to download Arabic WordPress from various sites on the net where these files contain malicious files, so I say the official Arabic version is here in our forums, when we link in our forums to http://ar.wordpress.org/wordpress-3.5.1-ar.zip
The intention to help people download WordPress from the right place!
13. Regarding the claim “those poor guys should know that their being ripped off on a very popular website!”:
I think you need to respect yourself. As a one who is contributing much of his time for many years to WordPress I’m just disgusted to read you describe me as a poor guy.
Who you are and what you contribute to WordPress?
Instead of coming up with constructive criticism, you come to complain and describe us as criminals!
So I ask, before you blame, think of how you can positively help by contributing and donating your time back and check the facts before you post.
Nabil, your negative (and incorrect) feedback is a punch in the gut to the people who are already giving 200%).
Since 2006 no one posted a negative opinion piece, 99.9% of arabic wordpress users appreciate my *proven* contribution to WordPress. You probably reflects the 0.01%
Ze, If you think I’m not fit to be a validator just tell me. I will get up and leave after six years. I’d love to find more time for myself and my family.
Sorry for writing so much, but I felt bad after what I read and I had to respond accordingly.
Thanks
Thanks for the elaborate and very complete reply.
Rasheed, your contribution isn’t being questioned here, it is sufficiently documented, but given that you are alone at it, and from previous experience, I know that things can get sometimes out of hand.
Ze, If you think I’m not fit to be a validator just tell me
My opinion is irrelevant; I’m not part of the Arabic community, nor do I even speak it. I’m trying to understand what’s going on and make sure that a “community” actually is one.
I think that this thread is worth discussing in real time, could we all schedule a IRC meeting on the #wordpress-polyglots channel very soon, to try and fix this faster? It would obviously be open to all, especially those who use/translate WordPress to Arabic.
Sounds great!
Nabil,
I suggest you to come with constructive criticism Instead of accusing us like criminals!
Believe me you will not lose anything if you would appreciate the contribution of others.
I wish you a lot of success in life.
Please tone it down, the both of you; there is no need for this, not here.
could we all schedule a IRC meeting on the #wordpress-polyglots channel very soon, to try and fix this faster? It would obviously be open to all, especially those who use/translate WordPress to Arabic
Definitely.
In any case I prefer to schedule IRC meeting after a week if possible, I’ll have more free time.
Thanks
No problem. When is good? (times in GMT, please)
but given that you are alone at it, and from previous experience, I know that things can get sometimes out of hand.
Ze,
I am not alone, we are a team, but only me is assigned as validator.
In any case I will be available on 27/03/2013 at 21:30 Jerusalem time (GMT + 2:00).
Thanks
That’s 11:30pm in Morocco & Portugal.
I’m fine with that, what about you Ze?
Sure, that works for me.
Please bring patience, grace and manners. Thank you.
))
Sorry, It’s 7:30pm in Morocco and Portugal and not 11:30pm…
It’s also good to me , I will be in the meeting , In shaa Allah
My availibility: I’m avaiable immediately, I work as a freelancer and I’m can shift my work schedule easily if needed.
When someone ask me for the validator right, I told them to translate at least 40-50 strings in glotpress. If their translation are OK. I am glad to give the validator right to them.
Racheed was proved to be a good maintainer for six years and he can clarify each accusations. While Nabil didn’t provide the evidence of some accusations that Racheed asked for and what did He contribute to wordpress arabic so far?
just my two cents
Yes , Nabil Kadimi didn’t provide the evidence of many accusations as I replied , also for your informations , and as one of the Arabian translators we didn’t asked Rasheed that we want to be Validator before ( we know he will never reject us ) , because we trust in his ability , and we will not let Arabian WordPress effort gone by @Nabil Kadimi untruth claim !!
Please be patient, I will post an update when I have time.
As one of the big Arabian WordPress Community , I reject the @Nabil Kadimi claim and I want to say that Rasheed is not alone , and he done a perfect job since six years !!
This is the first time I see your name here “Nabil Kadimi” and you never contact us of any thing you think it’s wrong in our community , Rashed has reply to all your claims , and I want to confirm :
1. Regarding the claim
“I would gladly help with the arabic translation on bbPress and other projects I use heavily, but I see that strings are not validates here, I already tried to get in touch but couldn’t get answers. ”
You are welcome to contribute to WordPress any-time it’s open for every one .
You asked me in previous topic in our forums :
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums/topic/4829/
That you want to help us in translating WordPress and I replied on you that you can every time , and I post the GlotPress link to you .. So don’t be a truth-less !
“Serious disrespect of legal ownership means many themeforest hosted on the community website and available for free!”
2. Regarding the claim “There is only one Arabic validator which says I don’t want unauthorized people to have access to the Translation I am working hard for it.”:
I know that Rasheed he will never say that , and we open the translating doors for every one and many people help us , The reason that Rasheed he is the only validator because no one else ask that before , We know it’s a big responsibility and we help as mush as we can ,, we don’t run after the bit “Names” we run to help WprdPress !!
3 – “No glossary, only a few discussions about some terms and other discussions asking people to participate without giving them clues but a link to glotpress”
You can help to translate the WordPress Codex any-time , I and others translate many pages if you see , and you can see this links :
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t23970.html
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t17157.html
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t40102.html
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t35866.html
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t31767.html
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t27599.html
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t23209.html
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t21991.html
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/t20219.html
and if you check this link
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums-archive/f38/
You will see that many people correct some string and claim about others too .
So again don’t be a truth-less !
3 – Regarding the claim
“I believe that that, as a validator, the person should aim to build a community of good programmers and linguists that should work together to make WP better, in other communities I’m part of, we hunt for good profiles to help us, we do meetings, we have a clear process on how roles and privileges are granted, you know that if you do this or that X times you will be given/revoked the right to do this or that, if you don’t participate enough, you will be revoked these rights, etc.”
I said Rasheed has done a prefect job since 6 years , we do meeting , support , translate , groups , post tickets to the trac … etc
I don’t know from where you come from but the Arabian WordPress community is active ! , and we welcome for anyone want to help !
4 – Regarding the claim
“Being a validator doesn’t grant a person the rights to link to his/her website in WordPress translations (po) or link –in the wordpress dashboard– to a blog that only he/she publishes on, the current validator forces all Arabic users to see the blog posts he wrote on his blog, the newest one (as comments dates show) was written on october 2010 (I do not question their quality).”
Toattly untruth ! , Rasheed has never post his blog link in the .po files !!
5 – Regarding the claim
“The community website should not –I believe– be a place for selling all the real estate above the fold (this one is outdated since the community website was updated a few weeks ago).”
We don’t sell anything in the ar-wp.com , we gave the support , help , and love in our Arabian WordPress community , the main reason because we have a separate website is to give more !
And a lot of WordPress users love that , and try to help us as mush as they can , but It still a little help compared to other communities , because the Arabian people they still learn how to give !
Unhappily I was waiting your contributes to WordPress commenuity in more positive way , but I think that you from who want to show off only , not to help !
I know that you take the maintainership in Arabian Drupal Community , and you try to support it as you can , but don’t think that all communities as yours ,, small ! , Many people contribute to Arabian WordPress even before Rasheed , and we try complete what the previous done , not to flawing !
Everyone in the Arabain community respect Rasheed and trust him , So don’t make a truth-less claim because you don’t know even what we spend on it from our time and effort !
I would like to point out that I met Rasheed online, he was very friendly and we we resolved all differences.
I would like to point out also that Rasheed is very serious in dealing with Piracy and IP rights, more on that in an update post I’m preparing.
Ze, please cancel the IRC meeting as it’s no longer needed.
If it’s all the same to you, I’d like to get to the bottom of this. Could you possibly humour me and have the chat anyway? Thanks.
Certainly, I’ll ask Rasheed’s permission to share the chat and the update I’m preparing will explain a lot of things we discussed.
Talked to Rasheed again, we’ll have that chat.
I’ll ask Rasheed’s permission to share the chat
Dismiss this, I said it because I misread your comment… As said, Rasheed and I we be on IRC
Hi i accept to be in this team thank you Nabil
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hi i want to translation bbpress to Arabic language by Glotpress ,Is there someone tell me what i can do
Arabic for the bbPress plugin is created. For now, the validator is @rasheed (current validator for WordPress core). Could you get in touch with him to enquire about permissions?
OK , thank you for Reply
I’ve translated BuddyPress 100% to Arabic. buddypress-ar.po
How can I upload it to official site of BuddyPress?
Test it here: fxarabi.com
Thanks,
Cool! would someone like to respond here please!?
Great. No validator for BuddyPress in Arabic. Any of you (or both) care to do it? (.org usernames, please)
I’m ready to join as validator. What is next step?
Next steps:
My site is FXArabi.com
And yes, ar.buddypress.org will be very useful.
First, I’ve got http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev
But no ‘Arabic’ section there.
Second, how to upload .po file?
My user name ‘letsfx’
GlotPress should be good to go: http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev/ar/default
Thanks a lot.
Arabic 89% uploaded now
guys i can’t find it anywhere :/
i really need an arabic translation for buddypress .. like right away 
You can find recent version here:
http://fxarabi.letsfx.com/?p=1946
heyy all,
I had no luck on WP.com forums, so i’m just here to ask again.
Can you please give me the access as a moderator to translate.wordpress.com in arabic?
Thanks in advance.
Wacław, 
Fathallah Wael, 
princehemo10 and 
saad, 
Ze Fontainhas 3:56 pm on April 2, 2013 Permalink |
Not sure I’m following… Do you mean this?
Nabil Kadimi 4:57 pm on April 2, 2013 Permalink |
Yes that one.
Marko Heijnen 3:59 pm on April 2, 2013 Permalink |
You can’t export unverified strings yet. I did create a ticket on trac for GlotPress to have this feature because it’s damn handy: http://glotpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/232
pavelevap 4:51 pm on April 2, 2013 Permalink |
Yes, it is possible, but a little bit tricky. First you have to click link “Filter”, select first choise “Current/waiting/fuzzy + untranslated (All)” and apply it by clicking on “Filter” button. The main purpose is adding
filters[status]=current_or_waiting_or_fuzzy_or_untranslatedto URL. Then it works as Ze described, select “only matching the filter” and all waiting strings will be in exported .po file.Marko Heijnen 5:10 pm on April 2, 2013 Permalink |
Uhm weird. I thought I tried that but I guess I did something wrong then. Will be playing with it soon
Nabil Kadimi 11:05 pm on April 2, 2013 Permalink |
This is what I did, I get original strings but no translations
Wacław 9:12 am on April 4, 2013 Permalink |
I’m guessing this is because they weren’t approved by a validator.
Nashwan Doaqan 6:56 pm on April 2, 2013 Permalink |
2.2 ?! Make sure you translate the Development version, bbPress 2.3 will publish very soon, there are only 143 string need translation
http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/ar/default?filtersstatus=untranslated&sortby=priority&sorthow=desc
Nabil Kadimi 11:11 pm on April 2, 2013 Permalink |
I’m not translating now, I need those for a live project.