Hi, Zé, Thanks, that's what I was thinking, I thought it would be wonderfull to make the internationalization imperative for plugins/themes, but I know it's not that simple. So I'll take your advice and write to wp-hackers. ;) Cheers, Cátia
2009/11/14 José Fontainhas <[email protected]> > Cátia, > > The way to do it would probably be to have plugin/theme authors > include that information on the readme.txt file > (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt). Why? Because > it would be overkill for us to monitor and validate 6000+ plugins and > themes. It would slow down the approval process to a crawl. If the > information is on the readme file, it is relatively trivial for us to > include that on the plugin's/theme's FIY box. > > I'd suggest taking this discussion over to the wp-hackers mailing list > so that the actual authors can contribute some ideas. > > All in all, yes it is doable, but not at a "central" spot (i.e. approval). > > Bjs > > Zé > > > > 2009/11/13 Cátia Kitahara <[email protected]>: > > Hi Amir, > > > > No, I was only talking about the wordpress.org plugins/themes directory > > (where I said plugin/theme repository, I was meaning directory, sorry). > > Your plugin is very interesting, though :) > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > 2009/11/13 Amir Helzer <[email protected]> > >> > >> Hi Cátia, > >> > >> Actually, we're planning to build something like this: > >> > http://wpml.org/2009/11/wpml-1-5-0-translation-hub-for-plugins-and-themes/ > >> > >> In case you don't know, WPML is a plugin for running WordPress > >> multilingual. Getting everything translated is very important to us and > our > >> users. > >> > >> WPML already includes facilities for translating themes and plugins: > >> > >> * Scans the PHP and extract strings that need translation > >> * Includes a string translation interface that allows entering > translation > >> for everything. It's organized by context and is made for translators. > >> * Hooks to the gettext calls and injects the translation from its own > >> string translation interface. > >> * Imports and exports .po files. > >> > >> What we're planning to do, in the very near future, is allow it to > >> synchronize translations with a central repository. This will allow > >> automatically downloading missing translations for everything that the > blog > >> includes. > >> > >> To upload translations, people will have to complete a short sign up > >> procedure. This will allow us to do some filtering and make sure that > >> contributors can write in the language they're contributing to. > Plugin/theme > >> owners will have superuser privileges and will be able to edit their > >> translations. > >> > >> Is this, more or less, what you're talking about? > >> > >> Amir > >> > >> Cátia Kitahara wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi guys, > >>> > >>> Some people asked me if there's a repository of plugins/themes > >>> translations. > >>> Well, that made me remember of an idea I had talking to Zé, while he > was > >>> here, do you remember, Zé? > >>> The idea was to add to the plugins/themes repository the information > >>> wether a plugin/theme is internationalized or not and if so, in which > >>> languages it's available. Maybe it would be also nice to have a message > >>> telling people who localize plugins/themes to send their files to the > >>> plugin/theme author, so it's distributed with it. I'm saying that > because > >>> sometimes people make localizations for their own use and they just > don't > >>> think of sharing it. Also because others just distribute their > localizations > >>> through their own sites without contacting the plugin/theme author. > >>> Is it possible? What do you think? > >>> Cheers > >>> -- > >>> Cátia Kitahara > > > > > > > > -- > > Cátia Kitahara > > > > www.catiakitahara.com.br > > www.airuma.com.br > > www.wordpress-br.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wp-polyglots mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-polyglots > > > > > -- Cátia Kitahara www.catiakitahara.com.br www.airuma.com.br www.wordpress-br.com
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