[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #7105: Create a Contribute page on make.wordpress.org to host the Contributor Orientation Tool

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#7105: Create a Contribute page on make.wordpress.org to host the Contributor
Orientation Tool
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 Reporter:  SeReedMedia               |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high                      |   Milestone:
Component:  Make (Get Involved) / P2  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                            |
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Comment (by dd32):

 > **We need** to create a "Contribute" page on make.wordpress.org:

 (emphasis mine)

 Who is "We" here - it's unclear as to whether this is something that has
 been "approved" by anyone, or if this is a request from the marketing team
 / team reps / WordCamp organisers / etc.

 "Need" is also a very direct word, 'we need' is highly distinct from
 something like 'I propose', 'Team X suggests', 'Out of _this_
 conversation, we agreed that', etc.

 As I'm sure everyone knows, there's a lot of competing ideas within the
 WordPress community and different teams, sometimes it's hard to
 distinguish where requests are coming from and how much weight should be
 given to the requesters high-priority task.
 What's High priority to one team may be low to another, etc, and among the
 Meta team it may be entirely different yet again.


 > --> We would like to have the code setup up on a draft Contribute page
 and assess what styles we need to adjust.

 The theme running on `make.wordpress.org/` is highly limited and not at
 all appropriate for freeform content, it'll likely require a fair bit of
 styling work, I don't know how much.

 You'll find the theme here:
 https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html
 /wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-makehome

 > figure out how we'll allow various locale teams to translate this tools
 to their respective languages, and divert the traffic to the localized
 version.

 We probably wouldn't push this out to the localised domains, instead,
 localisation would likely be achieved through a language switcher similar
 to what's on Learn.

 I haven't reviewed the code, but as long as it uses gettext variants it
 shouldn't be hard to get it into GlotPress and have the translations
 pulled from there.

 But that's also also assuming it would be localised at the outset, which
 it probably wouldn't be a priority to, as contributing to ''most'' (all?)
 teams requires english skillset (even translators need to know english,
 being the source-language).  As part of the MVP for this request,
 localisation wouldn't be a high priority IMHO.

 > We would like to have the code setup
 Just noting that I haven't reviewed the code, and whomever does set it up
 on w.org will need to perform a full code review first.

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