Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – July 7, 2021 (12:00 UTC and 22:30 UTC)

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Here’s the agenda for our weekly chat.

This meeting will be held at Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 12:00 UTC 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/..

There will be an additional meeting at Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 at 22:30 UTC for the Americas-friendly timezone.

Welcomes
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 5.8 is available for translation
- Release Candidate 2 was released yesterday
Block Pattern Directory
- StringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. can be found in Patterns and Meta > Pattern Directory (for more context)
Open floor / achievements

If you have any additions to the agenda, please share them in the comments.

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Erica Varlese 11:03 pm on July 7, 2021
Meeting Archive

These are combined notes for both the Polyglots EU and Americas chats from Wednesday, July 7, 2021.

Weekly Stats
Below stats are dated 2021-07-07 compared to 2021-06-30 (differences between brackets)

Releases: 205 (±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/, 77 (±0) up to date, 1 (±0) behind by minor versions, 2 (±0) behind by one major version, 45 (±0) behind more than one major version, 77 (±0) have site but never released, 3 (±0) have no site.
Translations: 205 (±0) total, 3 (-2) at 100%, 61 (+3) over 95%, 15 (±0) over 90%, 49 (-1) over 50%, 76 (±0) below 50%, 126 (±0) have a language pack generated, 1 (±0) have no project.

Requests: There are 23 unresolved editor requests out of 4 415 (+23) total and 17 unresolved locale requests out of 162 (+2) total.

Translators: There are 711 (-2) 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., 5 370 (+8) 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 53 249 (+280) 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: 55,432% (-0,023%) of WordPress sites are running a translated WordPress site.

Releases and FYI
- WordPress 5.8 is now available for translation. July 20, 2021 is the expected release date.
- Release CandidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 2 is now available for testing.
- Once coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 5.8 translations are complete, polyglots can help localize blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. patterns and the Pattern Directory using the new projects added to GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org.. This post Help Translate Block Patterns has all of the related information.
Open Floor
- There is a really helpful post on the Community team’s blog for How to Translate Community Team Resources thanks to @nao and @mpcdigital.
- @psmits1567 shared that a new version of the WP Translation Filler is now available.

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