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WordPress Translation Day is a remote conference combined with a global contributor day that happens for 24 hours in as many locations as possible around the world.
It has a 24 hour live streaming schedule with speakers and trainsers from the current Translation teams onboarding new contributors, sharing knowledge, and discussing important issues. One of the goals of the live streaming is to get to know each other and to introduce our teams to other teams across the globe working on the same projects.
The other really important part of WordPress translation Day are the local events – contributor days dedicated to translation, organised by volunteers.
What are the roles of the WordPress Translation Day organisers?
Communication (marketing) volunteers – tasks include event announcements, social media announcements, social media support during the event, spreading the word and helping people find information
Design volunteers – tasks include creating banners, posters and swag for the event
Outreach volunteers – a really important role – direct contact with potential local organisers is really important and our outreach volunteers get in touch with local WordPress event organisers and invite them to oraganise a local event during WordPress translation day. They also provide information and support and put organisers in touch with mentors.
Website/admin volunteers – we have a website we use to market the event wptranslationday.org – it needs content managers and admins to help communicate the event better, upload the schedule, post announcements and speakers, etc.
Live Streaming content volunteers – tasks include putting out call for speakers, speaker selection, finding and mentoring speakers, supporting speakers during the event
Local events mentors – an important role on the team. The local events mentors help event organisers structure and announce their events, get people to attend and advice them on resources they can use during the event
Who can join the team?
Anyone who would like to dedicate time and effort to organise WordPress Translation Day is welcome to join the team. If you have a couple of hours a week to spare, the Polyglots team would really appreciate your help. WordPress Translation Day has been essential for many local communities around the globe and each edition helps more people to understand us better, join us and become a part of the global family.
When is WordPress Translation Day going to be?
That depends on when a team forms. One suggestion is that WordPress Translation Day 3 is on September 30th, International Translation Day.
Further reading
Want to read more about previous Translation Days, watch video and learn how they were organised? Here are a few links:
We did it 🏆 Last weekend was the first ever Global WordPress Translation Day and it happened just as planned and exceeded our expectation about the overall activity. It was a great first event of what I’m hoping we can turn into a regular series so we can get together more often, bring new people on board and improve our processes, documentation and, let’s face it… our contributing experience overall.
Everything was organised in an open Google Spreadsheet that everyone had access to edit. The ultimate exercise in trust and initiative as everyone could jump on and add information/change/ask questions.
The Website
We are all extremely grateful to Scott Basgaard who allowed us to basically clone the last WordSesh site and change the content, so http://wptranslationday.org is basically WordSesh with our colours and content. The Website allowed us to have a real marketing campaign and in less than 3 weeks we got more than 1300 people to sign up to take part of the event.
24 hours of live streaming sessions
For the live streaming sessions, we used CrowdCast, which worked beautifully and I would highly recommend if we ever decide to do webinars or any online training.
All the videos from the sessions are here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/wptranslationday/ and will stay available to watch (can also be downloaded). The developer sessions and the translation training will all go on WordPress.TV as well and will be used in various documentation parts of make.wordpress.org
317 people watched the live streaming sessions
We had live video translation training for 12 languages – Japanese (in that language, by the GTE team) and a general one for all locales in English that I did in the beginning of the day.
There were 22 live sessions overall including development training and translation training, several videos from different WordCamps dedicated to i18n & L10n.
We had several sessions aimed at plugin and theme developers whether it was to advise them on how to find translators for their themes and plugins or to teach them how to prepare them for L10n
I also want to thank Danielle who jumped on the schedule last minute to wake us up and chat about his great browser extension GlotDict that helps translators get a global Glossary. You can watch the session here. here.
Local events – stand alone contributor days dedicated to translating WordPress
39 local events on 4 continents 🌍🌎🌏
11 remote events in different locations 💻
448 people submitting translations 👏
153 people got a polyglots badge, which means they submitted their first strings ever during that day! 🎈⭐️❤️
As of Monday morning, these are the final stats for the day that Dominik pulled from translate.w.org:
How much got translated 📈
A infographic by Raffaella Isidori
40350 strings translated during the 24 hours
597 projects on translate.wordpress.org had new strings submitted
53 locales got updated with new translations (just for WordPress, not including plugins and themes)
17 new translation editors were added across different locales
15 locales got more than 1000 new strings translated
Who translated the most 🏆
55 locales got contributed to during the 24 hours of the sprint, with 15 locales getting more than 1000 strings in. A stunning 597 projects got new strings translated across all projects (WordPress, Plugins and themes). Here’s the data by locale:
English (Canada)
en-ca
default
4123
Thai
th
default
3494
Japanese
ja
default
2922
Turkish
tr
default
2899
German
de
default
2896
Bulgarian
bg
default
2655
French
fr
default
2315
Dutch
nl
default
2298
Spanish
es
default
2219
Italian
it
default
1961
German (Formal)
de
formal
1856
Slovak
sk
default
1738
Marathi
mr
default
1171
Malayalam
ml
default
901
Greek
el
default
782
Croatian
hr
default
671
Russian
ru
default
589
Tajik
tg
default
579
Dutch (Formal)
nl
formal
527
Venezuelan Spanish
es-ve
default
451
Afrikaans
af
default
342
Gujarati
gu
default
336
Polish
pl
default
304
Finnish
fi
default
286
Swedish
sv
default
255
Chilean Spanish
es-cl
default
248
Brazilian Portuguese
pt-br
default
192
Spanish (Mexico)
es-mx
default
188
Romanian
ro
default
180
Hindi
hi
default
148
Norwegian (Bokmål)
nb
default
130
Hebrew
he
default
112
Chinese (China)
zh-cn
default
97
Bengali
bn
default
80
Serbian
sr
default
75
Persian
fa
default
50
Lithuanian
lt
default
47
Hungarian
hu
default
34
Kannada
kn
default
33
Albanian
sq
default
30
Tibetan
bo
default
26
Portuguese (Portugal)
pt
default
20
Chinese (Taiwan)
zh-tw
default
18
Tamil
ta
default
15
Javanese
jv
default
12
Asturian
ast
default
8
Turkmen
tuk
default
8
English (UK)
en-gb
default
7
Ukrainian
uk
default
7
Emoji
art-xemoji
default
5
English (Australia)
en-au
default
5
Azerbaijani (Turkey)
az-tr
default
2
Vietnamese
vi
default
2
Czech
cs
default
1
What else did we improve during the day
We got a global list of glossaries and style guides going and it has a lot of resources already
We improved our getting started documentation based on feedback we got
Many teams got new project translation editors and potential General Translation Editors
People from different regions in the same country started talking
We raised awareness about our work across the globe
The Buzz
During the day, the hashtag got updates from 202 accounts, 500 posts were sent that generated 945,251 impressions. See all the pictures and all the buss on the official hashtag #WPTranslationDay. Here’s just a small selection of photos.
I like to thank several people who made this event possible.
Scott Baasgard, for providing the WordSesh site infrastructure and all the WordSesh know-how for our live streaming sessions. Thank you, Scott, this couldn’t have happened without you. A big thank you to SiteGround, who donated the hosting and domain and provided solid support during the event.
Chantal and Nao, who helped me so much with the site and the communication across teams providing tech support, copy for the internal blog posts and constantly had my back when I needed it.
To each and every one of you who submitted a video for our great promo video and helped spread the word about the event after.
To Yana, who edited the video in one night, Hacko and Rob, who fixed bugs and helped me make sense of the different screencast options.
To all of you wonderful GTEs who committed your time to creating a presentation for the day, we’re paving the way to better documentation and more openness in the team, thank you. To all our other wonderful speakers, John, Nikolay, Claudio, Danielle, who did the technical sessions for theme and plugin developers.
To everyone who jumped into the idea and organised a local or a remote event during the day – you were the backbone of this initiative and we couldn’t have done this without you. You are a true inspiration and I’m sure we’ll get even more events next time thanks to your work.
And to Sonja, who stayed up with me for 25 hours providing support, tea, laughs, taking over when needed and who also spend the whole 25 hours translating to German in between taking care of me.
I love how this event brought us all together and I hope you all agree that we should do it again and soon.
How did the day go for you?
Share your impressions. Would you like to do it again? What should we do differently next time? Let’s make it even better.
Organise a 24-hour translation sprint that starts from the East and ends and the most Western parts of the world with three main goals:
Show people who are interested in translating WordPress in their language how to get involved
Translate and validate the waiting strings for current projects under the supervision of the current General translation editors
Add more general translation editors to different translation teams
The main questions:
What are we doing?
Live training on http://wptranslationday.org: A 24h live streaming of tutorials about translating WordPress in different languages (30min/1h sessions in different languages including a general instruction and specifics for that particular language)
Local translation contributor day: Small groups of contributors gather at different locations and translate face to face
Local remote translation contributor day: Current translation teams dedicate time and get involved remotely to do orientation for their potential contributors or work with their current translation teams on translating as many strings as they can.
A 24h global translation sprint starting at dawn – 30 min/ 1h sessions on how to translate WordPress and things specific to every language. So every hour in a suitable time zone we would have a new session starting that would help people translate to a different language. These sessions will be recorded and published immediately so even if you missed the beginning, you would be able to watch it and join the team for a few hours.
In the same time, in a time frame defined by local organiser, there will be local translation contributor days and remote translation contributor days happening all over the world.
How to get involved
Let’s have an official show of hands in the comments below this post if you’d like to get involved. Please also comment on how.
Do a live stream talk about translating WordPress into your language
30min/1h live session on translating WordPress. Recorded in your language. Based on a global template, but including specifics for translating in your locale.
Objectives: Introduce to the translation tool. Introduce to the local glossary. Introduce to the local style guide. Give examples of several things that people often get wrong.
Goal: Make it easier for people to understand the specifics of translating in your language.
The benefit of having the session in your language and recording it is that you can then use it to onboard people every time someone new wants to translate.
Organise a translation contributor day in your location
Organise a remote translation contributor day for your locale
Get involved with the main organisation (help organise the global event)
Example comment:
“I’m Petya, GTE for bg_BG and I’d like to be involved. I want to do a talk on translating WordPress in Bulgarian during the day and I will organise a translation contributor day in Sofia and support anyone who’d like to get involved remotely”
If you’d like to organise an event at your location or want to hold a remote event, please sign up in the Official Event Document where we’ll have the most important details documented. You can see the spreadsheet here, please request access to be able to fill in your details and get involved.
As discussed in last week’s chat, we’re planning to create a video presenting the Polyglots team to promote WordPress Global Translation Day. We need your help! The short promo video will simply include as much footage as we can get of people saying “Hello world from location” in their native languages.
We need your help! Send us a video from your location
What you need to do:
Shoot a video! It would be awesome to have a team of people representing your locale but it’s OK if it’s just you on the video! Please keep the video under 10 seconds, we want to include as many people as possible
To keep the video consistent , we ask you to say one the following phrases during the video:
“Hello world from [your city and country]!” in your native language! (ex.: “Γεια σου κόσμε από την Ελλάδα!” in Greek or “Здравей, свят от София, България!” in Bulgarian)
“We speak WordPress”
“Hello world, do you speak WordPress?”
“We translate WordPress in [your language]”
Name the video according to the following convention: WPGTDvideo_locale code (ex.: WPGTDvideo_bg_BG.mp4)
Upload it to Dropbox or Google Drive or your preferred service and provide the link. Please make sure that the video is public, ie it can be downloaded straight from the link without codes, passwords, sign-ins etc. The videos will be publicly available to everyone to see raw.
Add a link to the video while filling out this form – we need your name, your city and country, the script you used both in English and your native language and the download link.
Please try and send your videos by the end of the week (March 7th) so we can start working on the clip.
Thank you for your contribution! Let’s make something great together!
Myself, @michael_ks & @chantalc are doing this video, so you can ping us with Qs about it here or in Slack.
In the light of the increased demand for translations of both WordPress and of plugins and themes, we started to think about ways to increase our contributor base. We’ve been talking about translation sprints for a long time and have been discussing a global translation day in the past three weeks during our weekly chats. It’s time to make it happen.
The Idea
Organise a 24-hour translation sprint that starts from the East and ends and the most Western parts of the world with three main goals:
Show people who are interested in translating WordPress in their language how to get involved
Translate and validate the waiting strings for current projects under the supervision of the current General translation editors
Add more general translation editors to different translation teams
The main questions:
What are we doing?
Small groups of contributors gather at different locations and work face to face
Current translation teams dedicate time and get involved remotely to do orientation for their potential contributors or work with their current translation teams on translating as many strings as they can
When are we doing it?
After discussing potential time frames and time needed to organise the meetups at different locations, we’re aiming at the last weekend of March (26th or 27th) of the third weekend of April. (April 16th, 17th). If you’d like to propose any other dates, please feel free.
How are we going to organise it?
Define local organisers: raise your hand if you’d like to either organise something on the ground or get involved remotely. If you’re running a translation team, it’s highly recommended that you get involved in either way possible. Please comment below this post if you’d like to participate.
Ask locale communities if they will participate. We created a survey asking people some general questions about getting involved. Local translation team leads should send the survey to their local community. If there’s a local meetup where you are, send them a note. So far we have people from 19 countries willing to take part in the Global Translation Day (read about some of the results here). We’re going to ask the community team for their support with communication and send note to local meetup organisers.
Post on the local Rosetta sites about it and set up a sign-up form to get an idea about how many people would participate.
Prepare the general and localised documentation. Prepare a simple page with instructions for new contributors and an onboarding video about using Translate.WordPress.org. Make sure as many locales as possible have a general glossary started and some getting started with translations docs in their language.
Define the communication channels for the day. Use the local Slack channels some teams already have. If a team doesn’t have one, we can help them create one or we can use IRC channels for just that one day, each dedicated to a single locale.
To Do
Petya to ping the community team and discuss joining efforts. If there are other people here who are also active on the community team, they can do that as well – help welcome
The survey will stay open for another two weeks to gather more feedback
Create a post and ping representatives from different locations to send the survey to more people.
Nao to send the survey to some people in the Japanese community and other communities that she has a reach of
Identify local organisers
Identify places where we can organise people on the ground
Create a communication campaign around WP media and have people post about this in advance.
Work on local glossaries and documentation in the time leading to the event to ensure resources are available for more contributors.
To do this, we’ll need the help of the whole team. You can get involved by both organising locally and helping to spread the word globally. Please comment with your questions and let’s make this happen 🙂
