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Johannes Jülg 8:01 pm on January 7, 2025
@derwalter is now 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.. The translations have not been reviewed by our Polyglot team, but I took a quick look at them.

There are some errors and some translations do not follow the rules set by the German Polyglot team.

The German language has 2 branches: The formal form of address (Sie) and the informal form of address (default, du).

You should all follow these steps (either YOU, the Dev, or the Translator):
- Get yourselves (you AND/OR the translator – both would be best for perfect communication) on the German 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/. Community, channel #polyglots
  German tutorial how to join our Slack channel.
- Read the German Style Guide;
- Read the German Glossary;
- Use our Slack, #polyglots channel to get answers for questions that may arise – if you’re not sure, ask first;
- Ask the team (not individuals) in our Slack #polyglots for assistance. Everyone listed on translation.w.org on your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme page has at least PTE rights and can help.
We strongly recommend creating the German language stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. according to the above rules in order to provide the users of your plugin/theme with the highest quality, professional and consistent localizationLocalization Localization (sometimes shortened to "l10n") is the process of adapting a product or service to a particular language, culture, and desired local "look-and-feel.".

Done for de_DE @tobifjellner – PTE rights granted
derWalter 8:09 pm on January 7, 2025

thx guys.

Is there a decision for this pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, if it should be formal or informal?

my take on this is as follows:
If it should look more profound and professional, I recommend formal.
But following your style Guido, as someone who seems to be interested in sharing and democratic processes, viewing people on the same level, I recommend the informal approach.
Especially as there is a “formal informal” version of German, which is called “Arbeits-Du”, which translates to “working you”. So even approaching people by informal “you”, it shoulders the inclination of respect, culture and appropriate behavior.

So in this case I would opt for the informal approach.

eager to hear from you and happy to be on board 🙂
- tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner) 10:03 pm on January 7, 2025
  
  @derwalter
  It’s works in a different way.
  If you want your WordPress site to be in German(Germany), you need to also select which translation branch you want to use, either “default” (which uses “du), or “formal” (which uses “Sie”).
  
  Throughout the German translations of WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., plugins, themes, etc. this then needs to be followed. This way, the user will get a consistent language in all parts of the site.
  
  In other words, you don’t select one or the other version for the user, but (ideally) offer both, so that the user can choose what they want.
  Let’s tag the German team #de_DE in case they want to add more information.
  
  Contrary to many developers’ belief, the informal “du” version is much larger than “Sie”. You can see at https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ that “du” is used by 5.5% of all WordPress sites, whereas “Sie” reaches 0.2%.
  
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  But there’s also Swiss German, where the default branch use “Sie” (and this version is also used by 0.2% of all WordPress sites.
  In other words, if you’ve created both default and formal branch of de_DE for your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, then it would be wise to run a special script to convert de_DE formal into de_CH default. This script mostly handles a couple of spelling conventions, like replacing ß with ss.
  (The informal branch of de_CH is then another manual step of changing the verbs and voice back to “du”.)
  
  So you might want to also ask (in a new post) for 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. with #de_CH. For completeness, I should also mention that there is one more German 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/, de_AT.

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