[wp-forums] Language of Plugin

[charles.freesmelvin]

Is it even possible to use i18n for a German native plugin that supports it to English for a plain WordPress install that is not using en_CA or en_GB?

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Charles (thee17)

On 2013-08-01, at 16:03, Patrick Nommensen <patrick at nommensen.us> wrote:

> Those are all good points. [*By the way, I am from Germany and do speak it
> at home*].
> 
> I get that the world is bigger than the US and UK . However, I also know
> that English is the official/co-official language in 60 countries and 28
> non-sovereign states. This does not include countries like the US where the
> dominant language is English, but not officially. There are also many more
> that have a quickly growing percentage of English speakers. Yes, "official
> language" doesn't mean that it's the majority (yet).
> 
> I went through the first 20 pages of "Most Popular" plugins, total 300
> plugins, and all were in English. For aspiring WordPress plugin developers
> this is probably enough from them to think that in order to have a
> "popular" plugin it ought to be in English.  If WordPress wants to
> encourage amazing developers who don't speak English to develop and publish
> into the repository then perhaps there could be a *clear note stating that
> there is no pressure for them to use English?* Is there currently something
> like this?
> 
> *If we went on usage alone, then most likely the entire directory should be in
> Chinese.*
> 
> I find it interesting that the Chinese support forum (
> http://zh-cn.forums.wordpress.org/) has just ~1,500 posts vs. 3.68 million
> in the English forum. Therefore I assume that the majority of Chinese users
> go to the English forums because it is more convenient in one way or the
> other.
> 
> As a side note, I'd also like to say that it's not totally straightforward
> for new Wordress plugin developers to find information about creating and
> publishing plugins. If you start from WordPress.org and go to Get Involved
> --> Plugins all you see is the P2 blog. Perhaps a link to
> http://make.wordpress.org/docs/plugin-developer-handbook/ in the secondary
> nav bar would be helpful. This would make it similar to the "Contributor
> Handbook" link on the Get Involved --> Core page. I think that being able
> to find all needed information in 3-4 clicks from the homepage is a good
> idea. Sure, there's Google but it wouldn't be too difficult to make it
> easier accessible directly on the website.
> 
> Anyway, sorry for not properly searching the archive....as this same
> question was asked earlier. However, I do think there's a bit more that
> could be discussed here ^^^.
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don't want to offend anyone, but yet:
>> 
>> 
>> Anyone who wants to force people to write stuff in English, should be
>> forced to take a geography class or two. There are 80 million people in
>> Germany alone who have this other language called German. Loads of them use
>> WordPress, you want to force *your* language on to them? Don't even get me
>> started about Spanish, Chinese, etc etc.
>> 
>> 
>> It might surprise you but the world is bigger than the US and the UK and
>> WordPress' growth is down in large part to us having a good
>> internationalization strategy. Telling other people that their language is
>> nice but not as important as yours should not be a part of that.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> —
>> Sent from Mailbox for iPhone, please forgive typo's and brevity.
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I did bring that up before and I got told that they didn't need to be
>>> in English but I do agree that they should be.
>>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Patrick Nommensen <patrick at nommensen.us>
>> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I came across a (neat) plugin that is 100% German. See
>>>> http://wordpress.org/plugins/cachify/
>>>> 
>>>> I believe that the plugin information page(s) should be in English so
>> that
>>>> the majority of users can understand. Should the information page for
>> all
>>>> plugins be in English? I couldn't find any policy / FAQ about that.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> -Patrick
>>>> ---------------------------
>>>> Patrick Nommensen  ||  twitter.com/pnommensen
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