Project Proposal: Content Localization

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Overview

43% of the web is built on WordPress, and this number encompasses millions of people across the world making magic happen online for themselves, their clients, or their communities. With that in mind, it is integral that we have Learn WordPress content that enables and empowers people to get the most out of WordPress no matter what locale they are engaging with it in. This initiative will help us push WordPress beyond 43%.

The goal of the Content Localization project is to increase and expand availability of content on Learn WordPress to a variety of non-English locales by:

Creating new non-English locale content through Online Workshops, Courses, Lesson Plans, and Tutorials
Increasing non-English locale representation in the Online Workshop MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Group
Increasing non-English locale representation in the Training Team
Engaging with and bringing in more non-English locales into the Learn WordPress community

By the end of this project we should have the groundwork of a repeatable process that can be iterated upon further as the folks brought in start work to deliver on the goal of this project.

Project DRIsDRI Directly Responsible Individual - the people who are taking ownership or responsibility for a particular project or feature.

Project lead: @piyopiyofox

Project Members: @bsanevans, @courtneypk + volunteers

Project Timeline

Start: September 2022

End: December 2023

Project Objectives

In order to achieve the above mentioned goals and ensure the success of this project, we will need to focus our efforts on the following objectives:

Establish the Locale Ambassador role
Enlist at least five Locale Ambassadors (one in each target language)
Create a workflow of onboarding and how-to guides that take folks through the journey of joining the Training Team to publishing localized content
Bring in at least two new Training Team Members from the following locale communities: Spanish, Japanese, German, French, and Italian (These five languages are a starting point based on the most used languages in our stats page)
Have localized content show first on the Learn WordPress homepage when someone visits the page in their native locale

A Locale Ambassador is someone who bridges their local community and the Training Team through various initiatives such as, but not limited to: bringing contributors into their training team, onboarding contributors to the Training Team’s processes and providing language support, creating localized content.

Tasks

The tasks listed here have been separated by categorical work buckets.

Planning

Tasks in this section center around prep work for the Training Team.

Deadline: October 3rd, 2022

Share Proposal with Training Team
Post project thread on Training Team Blog
Assign Faculty or Training Team Members for support

Documentation

Tasks in this section center around creation of onboarding and how-to handbook pages that need to be created to support this initiative.

Deadline: December 23, 2022

Being a Locale Ambassador
Translating a Tutorial, Course, or Lesson Plan
Advertising Learn Content to your local community
Engaging the Marketing Team for publication of new locale content on Twitter
Engaging the Polyglots TeamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. for translation assistance
Engaging your local community regarding joining Learn WordPress
Bringing in Online Workshop Contributors from non-English locales
Recruiting Locale Ambassadors

Dev

Tasks in this section center around work that will require a developer to implement.

Deadline: November 30, 2022

Enable locale tagging for Courses, Tutorials, and Online Workshops

Please take a moment to comment on this post to share your feedback on this project proposal by Wednesday, September 28th

Jamie 7:42 am on September 21, 2022

Adding new locales will be great to bring on a more diverse group of contributors. I wonder if reaching out to local meetups in those locales, we might be able to find Locale Ambassadors?

Can other languages also start being onboarded and not just the 5 mentioned?
- Destiny Kanno 9:29 am on September 21, 2022
  
  Can other languages also start being onboarded and not just the 5 mentioned?
  
  Yes, absolutely! Those five are a starting point to guide this project, but we are not limiting the scope to just those five.
  
  I wonder if reaching out to local meetups in those locales, we might be able to find Locale Ambassadors?
  
  This is definitely something I was considering, and think it would be great if the Locale Ambassador can be the point person to reach out to these groups more easily. 🙂
Courtney Robertson 10:56 am on September 21, 2022

+make.wordpress.org/community/
Courtney Robertson 10:59 am on September 21, 2022

DRIDRI Directly Responsible Individual - the people who are taking ownership or responsibility for a particular project or feature. is a new term across the project. Can you clarify what this means for the team @piyopiyofox?
- Hugh Lashbrooke 12:27 am on September 22, 2022
  
  DRIDRI Directly Responsible Individual - the people who are taking ownership or responsibility for a particular project or feature. stands for Directly Responsible Individual – I have added the term to the glossary, so it shows up on hover in this post.
  - Destiny Kanno 1:52 am on October 22, 2022
    
    I’ve published a post to help clarify the meaning behind this terminology as well: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/10/22/managing-projects-and-terminology-dri/
Piermario Orecchioni 1:17 pm on September 21, 2022

Howdy! Italian Polyglot here! I’m so happy to see this! We’ll start by sharing this post during our weekly meeting tomorrow. Can’t wait to contribute to the project and help localizing more Learn content! 🙂
- Destiny Kanno 6:01 am on September 22, 2022
  
  Awesome, thank you Piermario! If you manage to recruit some volunteers, please let me know! In the official project thread I would love if we can identify contributors.
Erica Varlese 1:36 pm on September 21, 2022

+make.wordpress.org/polyglots/
Theophilus Adegbohungbe 8:55 pm on September 21, 2022

Greetings from Yoruba (Nigeria) Polyglot.

This is brilliant! I must commend the brains behind this idea. I strongly believe this would help WordPress gain more attention in different part of the world.

Please let me know when this kick-start. I would love to be part

I can’t wait 😍
- Destiny Kanno 12:32 am on September 29, 2022
  
  So thankful for and happy about your enthusiasm Theo! 😀
  
  Please let me know when this kick-start. I would love to be part
  
  Yes, most definitely! I’ll be working to finalize this project thread soon.
Vagelis 1:55 am on September 22, 2022

That’s a great idea. We are organising a translation day this Saturday ( Thessaloniki, Greece ). I will introduce Learn content translations to our attendees, and I’ll start a new lesson plan translation. Some may prefer translating content instead of just strings.
- Destiny Kanno 6:02 am on September 22, 2022
  
  That’s amazing Vagelis! If anyone finds that they’d like to be included in these project efforts once the project thread has been finalized and we create tasks, please let us know!
  - Vagelis 10:17 am on October 4, 2022
    
    Thanks, Destiny. A few people may want to get more involved in that, but nothing is solid yet. I am available ofc to help with that.
Hauwa Abashiya 5:54 pm on September 23, 2022

Thanks for writing this @piyopiyofox. It might take a while but I’m excited to see how this pans out, especially in the African community. I like the idea of Locale Ambassadors. Reaching out to Local Meetups and the Local/Regional SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. groups would be a good starting point for recruiting ambassadors.
- Destiny Kanno 12:35 am on September 29, 2022
  
  It might take a while but I’m excited to see how this pans out, especially in the African community.
  
  Yes, this point is key!! This project will serve as a foundational stepping stone but the work will continue months after.
  
  I like the idea of Locale Ambassadors. Reaching out to Local Meetups and the Local/Regional SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. groups would be a good starting point for recruiting ambassadors.
  
  I’m glad to hear this– I’m hoping this role will help empower and engage more folks in this work.
Pooja Derashri 11:42 am on September 26, 2022

Thanks, @piyopiyofox, for bringing this up. The timing is quite good as we are celebrating Translation events across the globe, and we might get some help from the Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. as well. Some of the people from India are excited to be part of it. I talked with a few from India and the nearby APAC zone, and they eagerly await this.
Benjamin Evans 6:18 am on September 28, 2022

@webtechpooja brought up a good point in today’s Faculty Meeting, which I wanted to document here.

Learn already hosts some localized content. When reaching out to volunteers, we can reach out to those contributors who previously made localized content, and see if they’d be interested in joining again.

Some may not appreciate being called out publicly, so personal outreach would be a better approach here. But there may be those who’d be excited at getting involved again.
Destiny Kanno 2:11 am on October 24, 2022

Howdy folks! I have a Project Thread: Content Localization Foundations draft ready for your review before publication on our team site by Thursday, November 3rd. Please review and leave suggestions, comments and feedback on the document. This is also a time where I welcome folks to volunteer for any of the tasks listed in the project.