tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 2:40 pm on March 15, 2017  

“Local” rosetta news in dashboard?…

“Local” rosettaRosetta 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. news in dashboard?
Hi friends,
Now as we start using the rosetta sites more actively for information about each 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/, wouldn’t it be really interesting to have news from your locale’s WordPress world pop right into the admin dashboard for the people using WordPress in your language?
Technically, I could achieve this immediately by “translating” the feed URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org of planet.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ into the newsfeed URL of my rosetta site.
But: First of all I’d like to check with the community how acceptable this would be.
Secondly: If we believe that it would be good to feed locale’s news into the dashboard, then it would be much nicer if we wouldn’t have to hi-jack the planet feed.
Thirdly: with three feeds (or even more, if you offer a couple of different feeds to choose from) perhaps there should be a couple of check boxes for end-user to choose what feeds he wants to see? If he doesn’t know a word English, then he might want to turn off both the official WordPress news and the planet altogether, for instance.

What’s your view on these questions?
I feel that if we could remind people who are actively using WordPress in Swedish about ways to participate and contribute (say with translations), that could mean a great upswing in community activity and probably more people to join meetups, etc.