[wp-polyglots] About Turkish Translation

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

2009/8/11 José Fontainhas <jfontainhas at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm Emre Erkan from WordPress Turkey Team. We provide a Turkish
>> package after a new version of WordPress come out. With automatic
>> upgrading of WordPress everything get much more easier but with one
>> problem. Turkish users have to get language files or download the
>> Turkish package again and upload to web host. We tried it last few
>> versions. It's not the best solution. I (the translator guy)
>> researched a little and found polyglots. So here I am. What should I
>> do? How can I manage tr.wordpress.org and where can I get credentials
>> for SVN?
>>
>
> Hi Emre,
>
> The very first step is to read
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress . This will give you an
> overview of the process. (There is apparently an entry for the Turkish team
> already at
> http://codex.wordpress.org/L10n:Localization_Teams#Turkish_.E2.80.93_T.C3.BCrk.C3.A7e)
>
> The creation of a tr.wordpress.org is also pretty straightforward and is
> documented here: http://codex.wordpress.org/International_WordPress_Sites
>

Actually the Turkish site already exists, but seems to be abandoned.
It is a good idea to contact the previous maintainers before taking
over.

Happy translating,
Nikolay.