Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – November 20, 2019 (6 UTC)

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Here’s the agenda for our weekly chat.

This meeting will be held at Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 6:00 GMT in the #polyglots channel in the Making WordPress 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/..

Weekly 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
WordPress 5.3 translation retrospective
- What worked for your team?
- What can be improved?
- What can we do to help each other as a global team?
Revisit Slack channel for communicating across language variant teams thread (Spanish speakers – please add comments)
HelpHub i18nInternationalization Internationalization (sometimes shortened to I18N , meaning “I - eighteen letters -N”) is the process of planning and implementing products and services so that they can easily be adapted to specific local languages and cultures, a process called localization. This is the process of making software translatable. Information about Internationalization for developers can be found in the Developer’s handbooks. progress update
Achievements & Open Floor

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tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 7:17 am on November 20, 2019

Below stats are dated 2019-11-20 compared to 2019-11-13 (differences between brackets)

Releases: 203 (±0) 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/, 49 (+16) up to date, 0 (±0) behind by minor versions, 18 (-14) behind by one major version, 54 (-2) behind more than one major version, 74 (±0) have site but never released, 8 (±0) have no site.
Translations: 203 (±0) total, 48 (+9) at 100%, 15 (-8) over 95%, 12 (-1) over 90%, 35 (±0) over 50%, 81 (±0) below 50%, 121 (±0) have a language pack generated, 12 (±0) have no project.

Requests: There are 19 unresolved editor requests out of 2 884 (+16) total and 12 unresolved locale requests out of 119 (±0) total.

Translators: There are 639 (-4) GTEGeneral 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., 3 526 (+11) PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are appointed by a general translation editor after a request by the project author or by the contributors themselves. and 36 991 (+181) translation contributors.
(A 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/ account could have multiple roles over different locale)

Site language: 54,365% (+0,228%) of WordPress sites are running a translated WordPress site.
Naoko Takano 7:04 am on November 27, 2019
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WordPress 5.3 translation retrospective
- For the next major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. cycle, Global mentors will remind GTEs twice (once at 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., and a few days before the release) via P2p2 "p2" is the name of the theme that blogs at make.wordpress.org use (and o2 is the accompanying plugin). When asked to post something "on the p2" by a member of the Polyglots team, that usually means you're asked to post on the team blog https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/. post @ mention.
Revisit 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/. channel for communicating across language variant teams thread
- Discussion is still going on on the thread
HelpHub i18nInternationalization Internationalization (sometimes shortened to I18N , meaning “I - eighteen letters -N”) is the process of planning and implementing products and services so that they can easily be adapted to specific local languages and cultures, a process called localization. This is the process of making software translatable. Information about Internationalization for developers can be found in the Developer’s handbooks. progress update
- Status sheet created
- Language selection UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. feedback wanted
Achievements & Open Floor
- @lasacco: Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. in Milan will be happening with 4 out of 7 GTEGeneral 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. at the Polyglots table
- @dinhtungdu is working on vi coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. translation – almost there!
tomhum 3:47 pm on November 30, 2019

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- tomhum 3:48 pm on November 30, 2019
  
  hello everyone, iam new members, pls teach me how to become helpful here.
  - tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 4:23 pm on November 30, 2019
    
    @tomhum Do you want to help with translation of WordPress? In that case, what languages do you know well? For reference you can see a list of languages at https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/

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