[wp-forums] Language of Plugin

[Mika Epstein]

I'll enforce 100% English in the plugins, when plugin authors can manage to do 100% correct internationalization in their code.

Tl;dr, no, the plugins are not English only. 

On Aug 1, 2013, at 0:35, Japheth Thomson <japh at envato.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>> ---------------------------
>>>> Patrick Nommensen  ||  twitter.com/pnommensen
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