[wp-forums] Language of Plugin

[Japheth Thomson]

I agree with Joost. I see no reason why plugins should be forced to use
English for their directory pages. You have Google Translate if you need to
work out what it says.

If we went on usage alone, then most likely the entire directory should be
in Chinese. Of course, that'd make my life a lot harder, but it'd probably
be pretty similar to the experience most non-English speakers currently
have in the plugin directory.

In an ideal world, all plugin pages would have translations, but that's not
practical at this time.

Cheers,
Japh



On 1 August 2013 17:27, 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
> >> ---------------------------
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