Locale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ Stats
Releases: 162 locales Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. 69 (+4) locales up to date. 1 (-2) locale behind by minor versions. 8 (±0) locales behind by one major version. 18 (-1) locales behind more than one major version. 59 (±0) locales have a site but never released. 7 (-1) locales don’t have a site.
Translations: 162 (±0) locales. 65 (±0) locales at 100%. 5 (±0) locales have more than 95%. 5 (+1) locales have more than 90%. 26 (-1) locales have more than 50%. 54 (+1) locales have less than 50%. 81 locales have a language pack. 81 locales have no language pack. 7 (-1) locales don’t have a WP project.
(Values in parentheses indicate change against previous week.)
We currently have 8 unresolved editor requests and 9 unresolved locale requests.
Tech Updates
After setting up some first team sites with the O2-theme, Dominik (@ocean90) asks for feedback. One suggestion was to also announce the new team site locally so that everyone is aware it may officially be used. Please feel free to add more feedback in the comments.
The team sites don’t allow to run separate team pages. Users are encouraged to tag posts to makes it easier to distinguish teams.
Request for feedback on GlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org. shortcuts
Members of the Polyglots 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/. are kindly asked, to briefly give a feedback regarding Shortcuts for copying original strings A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. in GlotPress, see GitHub issue https://github.com/GlotPress/GlotPress-WP/issues/554 .
Receiving contributions for translations
In the past couple of weeks several people asked Petya (@petya) if it’s ok to get paid to translate a plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party or a theme. She clarifies, that translating WordPress, including the free plugins and themes, is a contribution. There are a lot of people who get sponsored to contribute on the project, some people having all of their time covered. If someone would like to sponsor your time to work on a plugin or a theme, that’s perfectly ok. Refusing to translate the core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. software unless your time is covered would not be great, but also understandable. Not acceptable would be, if a General Translation Editor A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on all projects for a specific locale. would refuse to work on a project unless sponsored while at the same time standing in the way of volunteers who would like to translate.
Global WordPress Translation Day 2 (November 12th) – video, website, official announcement, content, local events
So far six events already are planned for the 2nd Global WordPress Translation Day. (For more details see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1--GaJZFoxCqb6NHBl2QYv4lH3Y6inIGBwr5Ln9SIaic/edit#gid=695788145).
If you are organising an event, please add it to the spreadsheet. New events will go into this map: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12Gni4JMfShyWHPqGNwh5-PMneMM&usp=sharing
Our website for the event will be again https://wptranslationday.org/. If anyone would like to help us out with the website, they should raise their hand – we’ll need content management and some tweaks here and there.
We also have our CrowdCast event set up and you can sign up. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gwtd2
An official announcement for Global WordPress Translation Day 2 is planned for this week. It would be nice to see the announcement find its way to as many Rosetta The code name of the theme for the local WordPress sites (eg. bg.wordpress.org is a “Rosetta” site). All locale specific WordPress sites are referred to as “Rosetta sites.” The name was inspired from the ancient Rosetta Stone, which contained more or less the same text in three different languages. sites as possible.
Reviving the Asia Pacific meeting
Petya (@petya) talked to Naoko (@nao) about reviving the Asia Pacific weekly Polyglots meeting. Meetings are scheduled for Wednesday, 6am UTC. The next meeting will also be announced via local Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channels and with an extra post on the Polyglots blog.
Open Discussion
The question came up, how we deal with translations of Child Themes, if the Parent theme has been removed from the WordPress directory. As the theme still may be available through other sources, there are no reasons not to translate their Child Themes. It was considered to add a ticket on Trac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. for further discussion, if some information about should be displayed on translate.wordpress.org The platform for contributing to the translation of WordPress core, themes and plugins. that contributors deal with a child theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/..
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