Organize a local event on WordPress Translation Day

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The Polyglots Team has been organizing annual WordPress Translation Days for the past years. The main goal of the global event is to get more translation contributors involved with the Polyglots team and improve the translations for WordPress and its ecosystem (Themes, Plugins, Apps, etc.).

We invite everyone involved with the Polyglots Team to consider organizing or taking a part in a small local meetup dedicated to translating. This is what we call “local events” or “local Meetups”.

You may feel organizing a translation event takes special knowledge or experience. It doesn’t really – you can just gather a couple of people on a video call for a few hours and have each of them spend some time working on translate.wordpress.org – that will be enough 🙂

Here are some tips on how to organize your local event.

Organize your local event

• Pick a format
  • For an online event, the Virtual Translation Day and Mini-Events page and Organizing Virtual Meetups can be useful!
  • If you are consindering an offline event, please make sure to review the In-person meetup decision checklist)
• Create a Meetup.com event (or you can use Facebook or other event tool) and invite people. We prepared an event description sample here.
• Publish an announcement on your Rosetta site (if you don’t have access, ping us in #polyglots Slack channel and we’ll make sure we connect you with the right people).
• Don’t forget to let us know your event via Call for Local Event Organizers form.

Do attendees need any preparation?

You don’t have to make it a requirement, but we recommend having them complete account creation process before the event.

1. Register an account on WordPress.org
2. Sign into Slack with their new account from chat.wordpress.org and join the #polyglots channel
3. Have them join your local Slack (if you have one)

On the day of the event

Here’s a list of things you need to help new contributors with:

• Start your day by explaining to the people at your event how the Polyglots Team runs. We have some resources you can use:
  • Polyglots Handbook
  • Polyglots Contributor Training: Intro to WordPress Translation
  • Translation Day 2021: Polyglots Team Updates (make a copy and create your own version)
• Make sure everyone has registered on WordPress.org
• Make sure everyone was able to access WordPress Slack & #polyglots channel and/or your local Slack
• Introduce them to translate.wordpress.org and briefly show them how to use it
  • Example: Getting started translating WordPress, themes, and plugins into different languages
  • Explain your style guide and/or glossary, if your team has one
• Log into translate.wordpress.org and get everyone to pick a project and start translating it
• For a larger group & offline event: hand out printed flyers with instructions & resources so people can get started on their own

Her are some handbook pages that can help the organizers:

• How to translate
• Getting Started at a contributor day
• How to use translate.wordpress.org
• Useful Links for Translation Events

Where is the glossary/style guide for my language?

All known glossaries and style guides are listed on this page: Glossaries and style guides per locale

If your locale doesn’t have a glossary or a style guide, please refer to the General Expectations when translating page. You can also look up glossaries of your language by other Open Source projects like GNU or Mozilla.

Tweet highlights #WPTranslationDay hashtag

Our event Twitter account is @translatewp.

• Tweet about your event with the #WPTranslationDay hashtag and mention @translatewp so we can retweet/mention your tweet and let more people know your event is happening.
• [TBD] We gather all the social buzz on wptranslationday.org/social-mentions so use the hashtag.
• #WPTranslationDay for your pictures and tweets you share and they will appear on the page. We would love to see images, video, and info from your local event.
• We would love it if you got the people around you to tweet videos and images from your event – it will be a great way to feel you’re a part of the global initiative.

Where should I ask if there’s something I don’t know?

As an event organizer, we highly recommend for you to be in the #polyglots-events channel on Make WordPress Slack.

Also, you can always check out our contributor handbook.

Global Event/Live Streaming

Where can I find the WordPress Translation Day Live streaming?

We are planning to have a few live events during the last two weeks of September. Stay tuned for more updates.

#polyglots