BP Codex Update and BuddyPress Translations

BP Codex Updates

Many thanks to the following developers for their new codex articles:

@imath – http://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/group-meta-queries-usage-example/

@chouf1 – http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/buddypress-database-diagram/ with thanks to @boonebgorges for the consults

@imath – http://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/taking-benefits-from-buddypress-settings-to-add-your-plugins-options/

@chouf1 – http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/how-to-add-members-to-a-group-via-wp-users-screen/

@hnla – http://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/bp-default-theme-moving-forward-with-bp-1-9/

@imath – http://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/enqueueing-scripts-or-styles-only-when-your-plugin-needs-it/

If you’d like to contribute to the BuddyPress Codex, please check out the references below

BP Codex Standards and Guidelines – Basic instructions for contributing to the Codex
BP Codex Table of Contents – Google spreadsheet updated regularly
Upcoming Codex Articles – Google docs updated regularly

BuddyPress Translations

A quick audit of all the codex pages under BuddyPress Languages/Translations reveal that only a handful of pages have links to translations for the latest BP version. The large majority of the language pages contained outdated, incorrect and oftentimes confusing information about where to find and download the translation files for the respective languages.

There are translations hosted at translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress, some at i18n.svn.buddypress.org (deprecated), one at svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n, one at google code, some at personal websites and/or BuddyPress Group websites. We need to consolidate all the translations in one official site so that the end users won’t have any difficulty in finding their respective translation files.

Per our BuddyPress Codex Survey, close to half (44%) of BuddyPress sites are built using languages other than English. There have been questions in the BuddyPress Forums about where to find translations and how to create or submit translations. We need to make it easy for translators to contribute to the BP project. In this respect, a Google spreadsheet re BP translations was created to get a bird’s-eye view about the status of BP translations at this time.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlDyI51JorH3dHFlandCVzk1U3VXeXFMWUtzNEJsSWc#gid=0

BuddyPress Languages/Translations Section To-Do’s

For translators: A new page with guide specifically for BuddyPress Translators – check out Zé Fontainhas’s post about Getting Started and Adding Support for a Language for WordPress which includea basic information about translating for WordPress Projects like BuddyPress c/o @chouf1
~~For users: A new page which lists languages and translators for latest BP versions – a la http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language~~ c/o @mercime
For both: provide a way to allow users to send feedback to translators.

Please feel free to add your suggestions and/or volunteer to author the step-by-step guide for BP Translators. Thanks.

#codex

Rob 10:50 pm on November 18, 2013

Is there a way to submit corrections for already ‘translated’ languages? For example in Spanish (Spain) just a quick glance finds this error:

English >>>>>>>>> Spanish (Spain)

Filter Groups or Activity by Metadata >>>>>>> Grupos Filtrados o Actividad de Metadatos

But that is incorrect. It should be “Filtrar Grupos o Actividad por Metadatos”

http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev/es/default

This one is also wrong:

Superpowered Group Extensions should be “Extension de Grupos Reforzados”

There is no such word in Spanish “Renforzados” (used in the existing translation)!
- Mercime 10:37 pm on November 19, 2013
  
  Is there a way to submit corrections for already ‘translated’ languages?
  
  Not at this time, but that’s a good idea for consideration.. Added in to-do’s. Thanks.
  - Rob 11:10 pm on November 19, 2013
    
    No problem. It sounds like someone just c/p the English into babelfish or google translate. Which makes it rather awkward.
  - Mercime 1:36 am on November 20, 2013
    
    Not sure about that. Could be human error or could be Spanish dialect in another part of the country (?). Please be patient, BP translators are all volunteers.
- Stephen Edgar 6:25 am on November 22, 2013
  
  To submit translation updates go to the translation, enter your translation suggestion and click ‘Submit new translation”, this will then be marked ‘Waiting’ and the Spanish translation validator for BuddyPress will either approve or reject the request.
Stephen Edgar 6:16 am on November 22, 2013

The Official, one and only place for BuddyPress translations is at http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/

The /dev branch has just been updated today to use BuddyPress /trunk

All the stats for translations are also at eg. http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev so your spreadsheet only needs to monitor the codex pages status.

The 1.8.x branch for BuddyPress I am not sure if it will be created eg http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/1.8.x or if this will be skipped and a 1.9.x branch further details on this can be found in this post http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2013/11/17/bbpress-dev-projects-bbpress-dev-is-using/

Requests to be added as a translator should be made on the PolyGlots blog http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

As outlined in this post by @nacin http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2013/10/02/strings-for-wordpress-3-7-hello-all-i-want/ “Upon 3.7′s launch, any 100% translations for these plugins will be delivered to WordPress sites during updates. The same goes for bbPress, BuddyPress, and default themes, too.” and this is my primary reason I had the English, Australia (en_AU) locale setup, to test and use automatic translations updates for bbPress & BuddyPress.
- Mercime 10:52 pm on November 26, 2013
  
  Thank you Stephen! 🙂 Spreadsheet was result of our audit and we have noted that i18n.svn.buddypress.org/ is deprecated (changed header to light background so that can be seen more clearly). As to 1.8x branch in official repo, not sure as well.
  - Stephen 10:58 pm on November 26, 2013
    
    Cool, as I’m going to keep atop of any i18n issues for bbPress I’ll make sure I also keep track of BuddyPress i18n issues also.
  - Mercime 12:24 am on November 27, 2013
    
    Many thanks Stephen. We appreciate your kind assistance 🙂
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