Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – March 30, 2022 (13:00 UTC)

Here’s the agenda for our weekly chat.

This meeting will be held at Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 13:00 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/..

• 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
• Help & feedback wanted:
  • Translate the hosting page (https://wordpress.org/hosting/). Give this issue a read first.
    • If recommending hosts on the English hosts page is just fine for your locale, create a new page in 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., translate it, and leave a comment on the GitHub issue with a link to the page.
    • If listing local hosting services makes better sense, then check out this Slack link from the #hosting-community and just keep this in mind for now (or share feedback to the requirements doc if you want to get involved!).
  • If there’s any feedback on this learn i18n ticket, thoughts appreciated, see the images in the issue. If you like/dislike it, throw an emoji on the GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue
• FYI:
  • There was a very productive discussion in the channel about how different localesLocale 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/ manage neutral gender solutions when translating. Read what different people said on Slack.
  • The quickest way to report spammers (in translations) is to drop a message in the #forums Slack channel and a moderator there will take care of the situation.
  • New stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. have been added to the Patterns project that you might have missed.
• Open floor / Achievement

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

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