[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52286: Add new admin widget "Community message"

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#52286: Add new admin widget "Community message"
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 Reporter:  tobifjellner    |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |    Version:
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                  |
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 WordPress regularly gets translated into some 50-60 language versions. But
 it could be more. (Ref: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ )

 We've got a long list of local WordPress forums in various languages. But
 not all of them are active, and there could be more languages here, too.
 (Ref: https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/contributing-to-the-
 wordpress-forums/support-forums-in-your-language/ )

 From time to time, there are other things happening, where it would be
 good to have a reasonably prominent place to make a message visible to
 people that use WordPress in a specific language.

 Yes, we are able to "reuse" the two RSS feeds in the Admin widget
 "WordPress events and News", but ever since this widget also started
 housing notices about meetups and WordCamps, the news only show the title
 and barely gets noticed.

 So I'd like to propose that we in the Admin panel add a new widget
 "Community" where contributors can put one formatted message that may
 change from time to time.

 Perhaps some "hack" via translate.wordpress.org could work as handling
 mechanism. (But it would be good to NOT depend on core language packs,
 since those get generated only when core is 100% translated. If a GTE
 would like to publish a "call for help" they'd be forced to first reach
 100% translation status before they'd be able to get this message
 distributed...)

 This could prove a vital tool to strengthen the continuity in many
 locales, where currently there are only 1-2 General Translation Editors
 each that keep everything rolling. There may formally be more people
 listed, but due to the very nature of volunteer contributions, not all are
 actively contributing.

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