<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Hi<br>Will these new </font>help tabs be availabe on <a href="http://wordpress.com">wordpress.com</a> too? I currently can't see them in my blog. They can be very informative.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Jane Wells <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jane@automattic.com">jane@automattic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello, translators. I'm writing with some news that could be viewed as wonderful or annoying, depending on your point of view. We're adding actual help text to all (well, at least most) of the Help tabs in WordPress 3.0. As you probably know, those tabs have largely been empty except for links to the Codex and Support Forums since they were instituted in 2.7. It was always our intention to populate these with screen-specific help, and with links to specific Codex pages for more information, but somehow other features always took priority. With all the hype that 3.0 has gotten, and the huge number of people publicly talking about their plans to start using WordPress when it comes out, it seemed like we should rectify the situation, and right now we are adding the help text to each screen. We have about half a dozen screens in since yesterday, and will be adding many more today before we are up against the RC/string freeze deadline. Any that aren't in by the time everything else is ready to go will be left out, so we're adding the help text to the most-used/questioned screens first.<br>
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This will be *wonderful* because we've been putting it off for almost 2 years, and it's about time those Help tabs started doing what they were meant to do. Confused users will have a first line of support built into the application, which is something we've needed for a long time.<br>
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This will be *annoying* because it's a lot of text to get translated in a short time. I'm sorry for that; our original scope for 3.0 had us releasing over a month ago, and with less hype, which is why help text wasn't an official planned feature. Hopefully you will agree with me that the frustration of this late-ish addition of text strings will be outweighed by benefit to the millions of WordPress users worldwide. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. For example, would it be useful for me to ask people to volunteer to help with this effort via the official @wordpress Twitter account? There are many international followers.<br>
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Thanks for your hard work,<br>
Jane<br>
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