[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #658: Internationalization DevHub

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#658: Internationalization DevHub
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  Reporter:  atimmer      |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Component:  developer.wordpress.org
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  needs-pondering i18n-change
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Comment (by atimmer):

 There are several parts that need to be internationalized:

 * The parsed documentation from the WordPress source code
 * The WordPress theme that is used for DevHub
 * Some possibility to add comments in your own language
 * I will highlight below what I think about each of them.

 '''Parsed documentation'''
 This is a hard one because WordPress core is in english which makes sense
 because PHP is in english. This gives us an interesting challenge, we need
 to translate content generated from the source. I think the best solution
 here is to throw all generated text into glotpress versioned into
 GlotPress so translators can translate it the way they are used to. This
 means we need to extend WP-Parser to do this.

 '''The WordPress theme'''
 This one is fairly easy: Throw it in GlotPress and we are mostly done.
 Maybe there are some parts that need i18n improvements but we will find
 that out soon enough.

 '''Some possibility to add comments in your own language'''
 I think this should be done the same way as the theme and plugin
 directory, so we could have nl.developer.wordpress.org that is a dutch
 version of DevHub. I don't know what this entails for the meta team.

 '''Timeline'''
 I think it is important to stress that this needs to happen before the
 codex disappears. Currently there is content on there that is translated
 and last WordCamp The Netherlands the organization were actively guiding
 people to help translating the codex. It will be an enormous amount of
 work to translate it all, so we should have core documentation in
 GlotPress asap.

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