WCEU - Glossary and Style Guide for Consistency

The workshop talk during WordCamp Europe 2017

Transcript

1. GLOSSARY & STYLE GUIDE FOR CONSISTENCY Documents and tools available to translate WordPress, plugins and themes to maintain consistency accross projects Pascal CASIER
2. YEP, THAT’S ME. Polyglots Team Mentor, GTE for fr_BE and nl_BE WordPress.tv Moderator bbPress.org Moderator Plugin Author Twitter: @ePascalC WordPress and Slack: @casiepa
4. CONSISTENCY IS KEY! Locale Style Guide Glossary Start Guide Tools 47.00% 47.50% 48.00% 48.50% 49.00% 49.50% 50.00% Translated WordPress Sites
5. LOCALE STYLE GUIDE Increase consistency Enhance quality Deter arguments Reduce rework Add it to your Rosetta site as a post or page!
6. LOCALE STYLE GUIDE (2)  Include  Writing tone  Punctuation  Formatting  Examples  FR/NL/DE informal language  No literal translation  Quotes “ “ into « » and non-breaking spaces
7. GLOSSARY A list of words specific to your language
8. GLOSSARY (2) https://translate.wordpress.org/
9. GLOSSARY (3)
10. GLOSSARY (4)
11. GLOSSARY (5) Note: Locale Glossary vs. Project Glossary
12. START GUIDE Where to start? Where to find info? Who to contact and how? How to translate Add it to your Rosetta site as a post or page!
13. TOOLS GlotPress (translate.wordpress.org) GlotDict Poedit, Launchpad, Loco, Transifex, Virtaal, Pootle, KBabel
14. Q, A THEN DEMO Questions ?
15. Polyglots Handbook: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/ List of Glossaries per locale: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/glot press-translate-wordpress-org/list-of-glossaries-per-locale/ Create/Maintain Glossary: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/glot press-translate-wordpress-org/glossary-style-guide/#using- the-glotpress-glossary GlotPress - translate.w.org: https://translate.wordpress.org/ Naoko's video on locale style guide: http://wordpress.tv/2016/11/14/naoko-takano-build-your- locale-style-guide/ GlotDict Homepage: https://github.com/Mte90/GlotDict