Create support forum to support Gujarati

[ashokrd2013]

People from Gujarat are always fond of WordPress and coding. Can you create a support forum in the Gujarati language so, we can communicate better & easy way in our mother tongue?

[Jan Dembowski]

@ashokrd2013 Unless you are reporting yourself as a spammer, abuser or something, never report a topic.

You’re not one of those are you? I don’t think you are. ??

It’s only for escalating to the forum moderators and is never for something like this. I have unreported this topic.

[Jan Dembowski]

Also I am not sure how it gets determined to create another language support site but I will ask in the #forums Slack channel.

[Yui]

Support forums for other languages than english (Rosetta) are created per request from the respective locale team
https://make.www.ads-software.com/polyglots/teams/?locale=gu
You can get in touch with them using locale Slack
https://make.www.ads-software.com/polyglots/handbook/translating/teams/local-slacks/

However, here are many prerequisities before language forum can be created,
this includes translated (or mostly translated) for several meta projects
(forums, rosetta) and bbpress plugin.

It seems that Gujarati language team is dormant and not much able to handle WordPress core translation, so you might also take a look at
https://make.www.ads-software.com/polyglots/handbook/translating/teams/inactive-translations/#inactive-locales
and ensure the locale team is revived.

[t-p]

In addition to your Gujarat state in India, there are some other Indian languages forums. Their teams might be able to guide as well.
Bengali Support Forums – https://bn.www.ads-software.com/support
Hindi Support Forum – https://hi.www.ads-software.com/support
????? Support Forum – https://mr.www.ads-software.com/support

[tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)]

Hi @ashokrd2013
Thanks for asking.

From the Polyglots’ team we can easily create yet another localized forum, technically, that is easy.
But before doing that, we need to know that we’ve got a somewhat sustainable team to look after the forum. Otherwise we may end up with a situation where users post questions, but nobody ever checks for spam that Akismet misses, nor cleans the queues of pending posts.

On the technical side: for the forum to “be presentable”, the following projects need to be translated:
– https://translate.www.ads-software.com/locale/gu/default/meta/forums/ (currently translated to 54%)
– https://translate.www.ads-software.com/locale/gu/default/wp-plugins/bbpress/ (Currently translated to 9%)

Once you have some 2-3 people that are committed to maintaining the forum, best next step is to post a request at https://make.www.ads-software.com/polyglots/ But before that please feel more than welcome to first chat with the relevant teams informally in Slack (I know you’re already there, but for other interested people, I’ll share the link where interested contributors can invite themselves: https://make.www.ads-software.com/chat/ ). The correct channels would be “polyglots” for “international” topics, and “forums” for questions around how we handle moderation, etc. Both these teams have weekly meetings in Slack, Polyglots uses alternating hours on Wednesdays and Support team meets Thursday at 17 hrs UTC (=quite late evening for your part of the world, but it’s an international team and there’s almost always someone around if you’ve got questions.)

In order for more people to use WordPress in Gujarati, it would also be good to have core translated, it’s currently also at 54%, see https://translate.www.ads-software.com/locale/gu/default/wp/dev/
(It may actually be in better shape than these numbers indicate, since there are some 3700 strings pending validation.

Now, since I’m one of the “Polyglots global mentors”, I really should mention that it would be wonderful if you know some people who would be interested in “activating” the #gu translations again.