{"id":67061,"date":"2026-05-24T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/?p=67061"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:10:17","slug":"hi-polyglots-i-have-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/2026\/05\/24\/hi-polyglots-i-have-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi polyglots. I have used&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi polyglots. I have used and contributed to WordPress for nearly two decades now. This ends with 7.0, which enables and encourages technologies that are demonstrably detrimental to the internet, the environment and the groundwater \u2014 in short, the planet. I cannot in good conscience volunteer for a project that elects to contribute to virtual as well as very real pollution. <\/p>\n<p>I ask that my <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Locale<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Locale<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it\u2019s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/teams\/\">https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/teams\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> manager and <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>GTE<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>General Translation Editor<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on <strong>all projects for a specific locale.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span> statuses be removed. Thereafter, I expect that I will be able to delete my profile. I see no way to do that now.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your good work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/tag\/request\/\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>request<\/a><\/p>\n<nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><li class='o2-post-footer-action'><a href=\"https:\/\/login.wordpress.org\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fpolyglots%2F2026%2F05%2F24%2Fhi-polyglots-i-have-used%2F%23respond&#038;locale=en_US\" title=\"Login to Reply\"  class=\"genericon  genericon-reply\"  data-action=\"login-to-reply\"  data-actionstate=\"default\" >Login to Reply<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><li class='o2-post-footer-action'><span class='o2-resolve-wrap'><a href=\"#\" title=\"Clear to-do\"  class=\"o2-resolve-link o2-disabled-action genericon  genericon-close\"  data-action=\"resolvedposts\"  data-actionstate=\"resolved\" >Clear to-do<\/a><ul><\/ul><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi polyglots. I have used and contributed to WordPress for nearly two decades now. This ends with 7.0, which enables and encourages technologies that are demonstrably detrimental to the internet, the environment and the groundwater \u2014 in short, the planet. I cannot in good conscience volunteer for a project that elects to contribute to virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-67061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-request","post_format-post-format-aside","p2_resolved-resolved","mentions-meinmycell","author-meinmycell"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67063,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67061\/revisions\/67063"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/meinmycell"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}