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Become a part of the Polyglots team and translate WordPress into your language The Polyglots team consists of volunteers worldwide who help bring WordPress to local communities by providing translations for more than 162 languages. We talk in two main channels: Slack: wordpress.slack.com, #polyglotsSite: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots How can you contribute? Become a translator Translating WordPress is a…

About the Team The Polyglots team is responsible for ensuring WordPress is available in dozens of languages and many more regions. It’s a big job, so we need help from native speakers of many languages to make it possible. The Polyglots team consists of over 15,000 active volunteers worldwide who take care of translations for…

There are a number of tools you can use to translate WordPress projects. Each tool has different features and options that may help you to find your ideal translation workflow. However, please remember that locale packages and language packs are always built from approved translations on translate.wordpress.org. Because of this, no matter which tool you…

In the Polyglots Contributor Training course, there are related content and quizzes. Why translate WordPress? WordPress is a free software project. Anyone can get involved to help it develop and grow. Every free software project needs volunteers — people who are willing to contribute their time to develop both the software and the project. Volunteers write code, design graphics,…

Your Rosetta site allows you to showcase up to four sites as great examples of WordPress in your community. There are a few expectations for the featured sites. Use the following as a basis for selecting sites: Conforming to the general Submission Criteria. Be in your language. Be from your local region. Now that you’ve…

This is the process that the Polyglots leadership team follows to add new locales, Rosetta sites, and forums to the Global Network.  1. Locale request requirements Every new locale request should consist of the following information. This information should be provided by the person requesting the locale as explained in the handbook page “Requesting a new…

Translate your Rosetta site When first created, your local WordPress.org site will have an interface and contents in US English. To have a localized, fully translated site in your language, you need to translate these two translation projects in the same way you translate WordPress itself. Rosetta project contains strings for the site UI labels.…

Now that you’ve translated WordPress into your language, it’s time to create a website for your locale. These are called Rosetta sites (after the great Rosetta Stone) and will be set up at [lang].wordpress.org. For example, Portuguese has the language code of “pt” and is given a domain of pt.wordpress.org. A Rosetta site is your…

Each locale team is responsible for maintaining their own WordPress.org properties, including: Rosetta site (e.g. de.wordpress.org) Rosetta team blog (e.g. de.wordpress.org/team) – also called P2 or o2 Rosetta support site (e.g. de.wordpress.org/support and de.wordpress.org/forums) – this is optional; created on a request basis These act as a sole official interface of WordPress for users who…