Notes from the Polyglots chats on November 30

LocaleLocale 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

Below stats are dated 2016-11-30 compared to 2016-11-23 (differences between brackets)

Releases: 164 (±0) locale, 74 (+1) up to date, 0 (±0) behind by minor versions, 5 (±0) behind by one major version, 16 (-1) behind more than one major version, 60 (-1) have site but never released, 9 (+1) have no site.
Translations: 164 (±0) total, 27 (+27) at 100%, 14 (-17) over 95%, 13 (-5) over 90%, 46 (-6) over 50%, 57 (+1) below 50%, 83 (+1) have a language pack generated, 7 (±0) have no project.

Requests: There are 26 unresolved editor requests out of 510 (+17) total and 8 unresolved locale requests out of 35 (±0) total.

Site language: 51,891% (-0,078%) of the WordPress sites are running in en_US (English (US)).

Tech update

• The teams page on https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ is now fully operational again.

WordPress 4.7 release

• We are in soft string freezeString freeze The term "string freeze" is used by the core team to mark the end of changes to the strings of an upcoming release. A string freeze also means that there will be no more strings added to the core project. Sometimes a string freeze has two phases a soft freeze and a hard freeze. A string freeze is announced on the Polyglots blog by the current release lead.. All translators are kindly requested to focus on the remaining stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. to get all locale to 100%
• No news on the subtitles for the video
• Release deadline of 6-Dec seems to be maintained.

Open Discussion

• @swissspidy has posted the outcome of his research on preferred languages https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/25/preferred-languages-research/ . If you know any software not on the list and can add info or practical use on the UX, please do so.
• Pages like https://sq.wordpress.org/plugins/about/ are English only. That page should disappear at a certain moment because it will be (or is) replaced with https://sq.wordpress.org/plugins-wp/developers/

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