[wp-polyglots] Using WordPress translations in a new Pootle feature

[Samuel Murray (Groenkloof)]

G'day everyone

As some of you may know, I lead a project that encourage volunteers from 
minority languages to help translate software into their languages. 
Some of our translators are also taking part in the translation of 
WordPress.  I'd like to tell you about a new feature in our web-based 
translation system that we'd like to exploit, just in case you get 
queries about it.

Previously, translators using Pootle had to translate from English, but 
thanks to a new feature, they can now also translate from other major 
languages, if those files are reasonably up to date.  For this reason 
we'll be loading WordPress translations in some of those major languages 
onto our Pootle server, in read-only mode, for use by other translators.

So if you're a translator here and you see your language suddenly appear 
on our Pootle server, don't worry.  We're simply making existing 
translations available to our other translators.  I may also contact 
some translators here to offer assistance in getting their language 
files up to date, if they prefer.

We're quite excited about the possibility of opening WordPress up to 
more languages, but we want to make sure we don't step on anyone's toes 
:-) or create the wrong impression.

Feel free to contact me for any information.

Samuel Murray



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Samuel Murray samuel at translate.org.za
Decathlon, for volunteer opensource translations
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/decathlon/