Help Translating WordPress dot com
Filed in: WordPress — August 7th, 2007
I stumbled upon WordPress.com Translation while browsing WordPress.com for VIP hosting. It is a project where people who speak English and another language can make WordPress.com available in their language of choice for themselves and their country. A WordPress.com ID is required.
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According to the language rankings, only translations of two languages have been 100% completed: Espanol and Bahasa Indonesia. What surprised me is that Chinese is one of the lowest ranking language. Nobody does the translation huh?
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August 7th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
looks like a good tool here in wordpress. For chinese translation, any chinese teacher here can volunteer to contribute?
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August 7th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
我尝试加了几个，待得空的时候会再去看看有什么翻译。
积少成多，大家都翻译一点点，很快应该就翻完吧。
中文的翻译比较慢，可能是很多中文部落客不知道吧。
August 8th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Great!!
Bahasa Indonesia has been completed 100%
August 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
The main reason why certain languages are not translated fully could be because it is FREE! Another popular blogger platform actually hired a reputable company to do paid translation for major languages to ensure quality and consistency. Even if a single person translates all the strings, without proper QC done, we would never know if the strings are correct, follows convention or even subscribes to popular usage. All said, I dont think wordpress will ever pay for translations, but what the users can do, other than volunteering for translation is that to do their own checks. Do a regular QC and email the folks on any error you find.