Erica Varlese 4:26 pm on June 3, 2021
Tags: events ( 25 ), translation day ( 6 ), wptranslationday ( 21 )

Proposal: Month-long Translation Day 2021 celebration

Every September 30th, International Translation Day celebrates the importance and impact of translators. For several years, many localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ and the global Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. have organized events on or around this date to celebrate those who make WordPress available in multiple languages: Polyglots contributors!

Last year, the Polyglots team and Marketing team worked closely together to organize virtual events around Translation Day. We saw community members organize more than twenty mini-translation events to encourage new translators, celebrate accomplishments, and connect with other Polyglots.

While September may seem far away, I’d like to share a proposal so we can start planning early for Translation Day 2021. Starting now will help all the teams involved promote events, plan for resources, and support even more locales to take part.

Translation Day 2021

Though we planned to celebrate Translation Week in 2020, some localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ teams continued the celebration for weeks by hosting regular Zoom meetings to hang out and translate together. (I’m looking at you, @nilovelez!) It was really moving to see the excitement and to have so many opportunities to connect during a year when we weren’t able to celebrate together in person.

For Translation Day 2021, I’d like to suggest that we host events throughout the entire month of September. In other words, let’s do a translation month! I know, a month sounds like a long time. However, the goal is to create more flexibility for locale teams to host an event at a time that works best for their local community at some point in September.

On a global level, the Polyglots and Marketing teams can work together to organize a weekly event each Thursday throughout the month. Ideally, these events would alternate by timezone, just like the Polyglots weekly meetings. That might look like:

Thurs, Sept. 2: Start the month-long celebration with a resource document that includes guides on how to start contributing. @nao also suggested hosting sessions for the Polyglots Training course at this time, too.
Thurs, Sept. 9: Panel
Thurs, Sept. 16: Panel
Thurs, Sept. 23: Panel
Thurs, Sept. 30: Close with a live stream event and recap post.

We could use these globally organized events to host panels or interviews to talk with contributors from multiple locales. We can even invite contributors from other open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. translation projects to share their experiences as well.

What do you think?

Translation Day is an excellent opportunity for Polyglots contributors to reflect on what we’ve accomplished throughout the year and celebrate making WordPress accessible in other languages. With all of that in mind, it would be helpful to know:

What do you think of the idea of a month-long celebration?
Does this help you with planning a local Translation Day event?
For the globally organized events, would you be interested in hearing about any specific topics?
If you don’t like the idea of hosting events throughout the month, do you prefer a week-long celebration? A single day?

Any feedback or thoughts you have are welcome!

If you would like some inspiration or haven’t participated in a Translation Day before, check out last year’s events. You can also find a whole playlist of all the streaming events organized last year.

A big thanks to @webcommsat, @tobifjellner, and @nao for helping to write, review, and share feedback on this proposal.

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Naoko Takano 7:22 am on June 4, 2021

Thanks for putting together the post, @evarlese!
I think a month-long format will work well for the team, it gives a lot of flexibility and time for localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ teams to organize their event that fits them the most.
Really looking forward to organizing the event again this year and seeing everyone’s creative ideas for getting translators excited and motivated.
- Peter Smits 9:54 am on July 7, 2021
  
  I think a month is pretty long. Specially while now everybody is busy recovering from covid businesswise.
  As for global events, I think a discussion or planning for translations would be welcome. E.g. how are we going to improve quality, amount of work, using automated translation, using predifined libraries for standard translations, expected translation work.
  - Erica Varlese 8:03 pm on July 8, 2021
    
    Thank you, Peter!
    
    For the discussion, it sounds like having an open, informal chat to share ideas and best practices on some of those topics may be helpful. Maybe something like a GTEGeneral Translation Editor A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on all projects for a specific locale. roundtable?
Yogesh Londhe 1:23 pm on July 7, 2021

@evarlese, thanks for starting the conversation.
I think a month-long ‘Translation Events’ is an excellent idea, that gives a lot of freedom to the local communities and individual contributors to choose the time of their own convenience.
A suggestion for the globally organized events: Some discussion about creating glossaries/lexicons for the localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ will be helpful for many Indian language translation efforts.
In India, we hosted Zoom meetings a couple of times to come together and translate. Five or six different locales were translated in those meetings, some translated stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. got approved as well.
We would love to be part of this month-long Translation effort. Let’s do this together.
- Erica Varlese 8:09 pm on July 8, 2021
  
  Thank you so much, Yogesh! This is really helpful, and it sounds like having some more flexibility with timing might work well for some communities.
  
  I also think having a discussion or roundtable on glossary best practices is a great idea to include. Moving forward, I’d like to include these discussion ideas in another post to see if anyone would be interested in helping organize – so this is great 😀
Erica Varlese 11:30 am on July 9, 2021

Another idea to add to the list of potential topics: a roundtable discussion or informal chat about the challenges of local community organizing in 2020/2021, what’s worked, and what’s been really hard.
Kharis Sulistiyono 8:43 am on July 10, 2021

I do agree that the month-long format will bring flexibility for each local team to schedule the event. Besides, it would also increase the participation number as contributors can join at their pace without interrupting their constant schedule like work/study-related kind of stuff.

Adding, the month-long format surely will help organizers manage the event easier as the sessions are days separated.
Naoko Takano 5:01 am on July 14, 2021

Thanks for the feedback, @psmits1567 @kharisblank @yoga1103!

A post to follow-up this discussion is published here:

https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2021/07/13/wordpress-translation-day-2021-planning-call-for-organizers/
Kharis Sulistiyono 8:17 am on July 19, 2021
For the globally organized events, would you be interested in hearing about any specific topics?

Indonesian team has been having a big homework on clearing the waiting list for themes and plugins. I am GTEGeneral Translation Editor A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on all projects for a specific locale. for Indonesian and curious about the stories from other localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ who successfully clear the waiting lists.
- What are their strategy?
- What are their advices on managing huge waiting list?
I’d like to know their success stories about those in globally organized events.
- tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 9:05 am on July 19, 2021
  
  @psmits1567 Perhaps a topic for you? ↑↑
  - Peter Smits 9:19 am on July 19, 2021
    
    Hi Toby, yes I will contact @kharisblank direcly. So I can give him an idea how we did it.
  - Peter Smits 12:02 pm on July 19, 2021
    
    Hi Toby, I contacted Kharis directly
    I can write a P2p2 "p2" is the name of the theme that blogs at make.wordpress.org use (and o2 is the accompanying plugin). When asked to post something "on the p2" by a member of the Polyglots team, that usually means you're asked to post on the team blog https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/. article with our experiences.
    Shall I create a draft, so you and nao can give your opinion about it?
    - tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 3:48 pm on July 19, 2021
      
      @psmits1567
      Of course you can do that. But I was thinking that perhaps you’d like a speaker slot in our online schedule for WordPress translation day(s)?
      - evarlese 2:30 pm on July 20, 2021
        
        +1 to this idea 😀
      - Peter Smits 10:06 am on July 21, 2021
        
        Hi Toby,
        
        I have considered your answer, but I have no clue what is expected when you reserve a speaker slot. Can you explain that so I have an idea about it
        
        In the meanwhile I have written the P2p2 "p2" is the name of the theme that blogs at make.wordpress.org use (and o2 is the accompanying plugin). When asked to post something "on the p2" by a member of the Polyglots team, that usually means you're asked to post on the team blog https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/. article as you know. After it has been reviewed, I will publish my experiences.
- Pieterjan Deneys 7:02 pm on July 20, 2021
  
  While I’m not a GTEGeneral Translation Editor A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on all projects for a specific locale., I help(ed) @psmits1567 and @jeroenrotty to get nl_BE, nl_NL and nl_NL-formal to 0 … If I remember it correctly, we started from 100k waiting for the three combined and after a month of just chipping away at it and rejecting waiting stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. who were older then a year with mistakes… We got almost all 3 of the languages to 0.
  
  Currently, I loaded a few translation files into nl_BE to translate some of the big plugins but apart from that it’s 0.
  
  Peter and I are watching nl_NL to keep it on 0 waiting strings… Currently, we are both chipping away at the formal since it has 10K-ish strings left. We are almost there. It’s was a journey but it was fun to do and rewarding to see that number go down and down.
- Pieterjan Deneys 7:02 pm on July 20, 2021
  
  @kharisblank… I forgot to tag you in the above reply! Shame on me!
  - Kharis Sulistiyono 10:13 pm on July 21, 2021
    
    Thanks for sharing @nekojonez! That’s really helpful.

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