I am the plugin author for Lang Forge and I would like to request PTE so I can maintain its translations properly.
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/langforge/
- #ru_RU – @avakodeforge (@tobifjellner)
- #ar – @avakodeforge
- #de_DE – @avakodeforge
- #es_ES – @avakodeforge
- #fr_FR – @avakodeforge
- #hi_IN – @avakodeforge
- #it_IT – @avakodeforge
— ja – @avakodeforge
— nl_NL – @avakodeforge
— pl_PL – @avakodeforge
- #pt_BR – @avakodeforge
- #tr_TR – @avakodeforge
- #uk – @avakodeforge (@tobifjellner)
- #zh_CN – @avakodeforge
I want to be upfront about where these translations come from, because I know this page says machine translation without human review by a speaker of the target language is not an acceptable source.
We are a very small team and cannot hire translators for 15 languages. The catalogues were machine-generated. When the plugin was approved, the directory imported the bundled languages/ folder into the project automatically — that is where the current Russian, Dutch, Czech and Swedish percentages came from, not from any contributor.
Before posting I built the closest thing to review that I could. I downloaded WordPress core’s own translations for each of these locales and compared every string of ours whose English source is byte-identical to a core string — 201 strings per locale. 975 diverged from core. Each divergence was reviewed individually and 692 were corrected, keeping 283 where core’s string comes from an unrelated context. Divergence from core is now 299. That shipped in version 1.0.28.
It found real errors, not just style preferences: two Hindi strings still in English and one that said the opposite of what it meant (“Disconnect”), an Italian false friend (“Editore” for Editor), French missing its non-breaking-space typography and WordPress’s inclusive role forms, Russian using “посты” where core has said “записи” for twenty years.
I understand that this is a process and not a native speaker, and that for 14 of these locales it does not meet the bar this page sets. I am asking anyway, because the alternative is imported strings sitting in your projects with nobody able to correct them.
ru_RU is the one I can genuinely vouch for — I am a native speaker.
For any locale where your team would rather not grant this, please just say so and I will remove the imported strings for that locale so they are not left there unreviewed. I would rather ship nothing than something wrong. I am also happy to publish the full per-string review with its reasoning if that would help you judge.
If you have any questions, just comment here. Thank you!