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Translator’s Handbook
Welcome to the Translator’s Handbook! The translator’s handbook will teach you everything you need to know about the Polyglots team and how we translate WordPress into different languages. This Handbook is organized according to the different roles that exist in the Polyglots community. For new translators, we recommend starting here before moving on to the…
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Inactive Translations
There are two types of inactive translations: inactive locales and inactive translation editors. Inactive locales If a locale is two or more major versions behind (for example, WordPress is at version 5.5 and the last released language version is 5.3), the locale is automatically considered “inactive” and Rosetta will note this. The local sites for these…
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Current Translation Teams
Team Structure The Polyglots team is organized into translation teams focused on specific languages. Each team has three roles: General Translation Editors who are responsible for all projects in a locale. Project Translation Editors who are responsible for one or more projects in a locale Translation Contributors who can suggest, but not approve, strings in…
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How We Work
The Polyglots team is organized into translation teams (locales) focused on specific languages, in addition to the global Polyglots team which organizes translation efforts more generally. Each locale has its own team leads and team reps to oversee and help with the day-to-day work. For more information on the roles within the Polyglots team, see…
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What We Do
WordPress is translated into many languages which are translated by volunteer community members. The Polyglots Team is responsible for both translating and managing this process. Responsibilities The WordPress project is large in scale. As of June 2020, over half (55.6%) of all sites running WordPress are running them in a language other than US English.…
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Codex
The Codex is a community-created repository for WordPress documentation. Anyone can edit any of the information on the Codex, and only a WordPress.org user account is required to create a page. At this moment in time, the Codex is not actively maintained and pages are migrated to wp-helphub.com. More information about the migration is here.…
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Handbooks
What are the handbooks? The handbooks are individual guides that teach people to work on specific aspects of WordPress. There are two kinds of handbooks that the Docs team works on: contributor handbooks that help people to get involved with the project developer handbooks to teach developers how to work with and extend WordPress Currently,…
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[OLD] Inline documentation
Note: This project was completed. Thank you for your contribution. WordPress’ current inline documentation efforts really kicked off starting in the 3.7 release cycle, and gained momentum as the hook docs initiative progressed. The inline documentation, or “inline docs” initiative is a hybrid project, reporting to the Core, Documentation, and Developer Hub teams. What is…
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Devhub
Devhub is the project name for developer.wordpress.org, which was deployed and is still under active development. A full project specification is available on the Make/Meta blog. Devhub is a new home for developer documentation on WordPress.org. It comprises: an auto-generated code reference targeted handbooks for developers The project requires the following types of contributors: PHP…
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New contributor at a Contributor Day
Weekly Office Hours: Mondays 15:00 UTC Where: The #docs channel on Slack This guide is a quick starting point for first-time contributors for the Documentation Team. If you are on a Contributor Day at a local WordCamp, this should get you pointed in the right direction. If you feel there is any aspect left out of…