Message to our translators: Crowdin is now integrated!

[pfrazee]

Hey everybody!

Thanks so much for being patient with me. I've finally integrated Crowdin, and am ready to work this into our flow.

• Crowdin Project: https://crowdin.com/project/bluesky-social
• Invite link to join: https://crowdin.com/project/bluesky-social/invite?h=caac48a68f4fcd62d285b403469336d02341845 (expires in 1 month)
• Introduction to Crowdin: https://support.crowdin.com/for-translators/

This update follows #7317. Changes to the process can be found in this PR: #7684.

Here's a summary of the changes:

Using Crowdin

Crowdin will be our primary tool for managing translations. There are two roles:

• Proof-readers. Can create new translations and approve submitted translations.
• Translators. Can create new translations.

All translations must be approved by proof-readers before they are accepted into the app.

Using other platforms

You may contribute PRs separately from Crowdin, however we strongly recommend using Crowdin to avoid conflicts.

Code of conduct on Crowdin

Please treat everyone with respect. Proof-readers are given final say on translations. Translators who frequently come into conflict with other translators, or who contribute noticably incorrect translations, will have their membership to the Crowdin project revoked.

Adding a new language

Create a new Crowdin discussion or GitHub issue requesting the new language be added to the project.

Please only request a new language when you are certain you will be able to contribute a substantive portion of translations for the language.

Becoming a translator on Crowdin

This invite link will add you to the project as a translator. The link will expire in 1 month. Not sure yet how it'll work after that link expires; still learning how crowdin works.

Becoming a proof-reader on Crowdin

Proof-readers are community translators who have established their reliability through contributions. We already have quite a few who meet that expectation!

If you wish to be a proof-reader, please reply to this issue with your Crowdin username. I will evaluate your contribution history and make the call on whether I'm comfortable giving that permission.

Per the Code of Conduct, if I get the sense that a proof-reader is not behaving responsibly, I'll revoke their role.

Kick-off

Proof-readers, please share your Crowdin usernames in the replies. As I approve you, please go to Crowdin and review the translations you administer. If everything looks correct, give the strings the +1! If not, please let me know in the replies here.

Once we've got everything set up, I'll create the first PR via the new process and we'll be in the new groove!

I'll do my best to stay available and responsive to everyone. Please surface any concerns or issues that arise. I did my best to design this process well, but I'm still new to Crowdin so it's entirely possible we'll need to change some things. <3 yall!

cc @xenomachina, @tkusano, @Signez, @claudiu-cristea, @BradEstey, @GrizliK1988, @rcombs, @mlocati, @Juanpabl, @snowp, @ovniroto, @thunderweasel, @valtlai, @benharri, @monty241, @skipness, @luan-u, @softastur, @tunetheweb, @quiple, @ivanbea, @DavidBuchanan314, @smileyhead, @renanmav, @auroursa, @mertssmnoglu, @karolstawowski, @kakkokari-gtyih, @roth-dev, @vinhphm, @hogaza, @voi-tech, @whoisanku, and @surfdude29

[surfdude29]

Thanks so much for setting this up @pfrazee! I think this will make localizing Bluesky much smoother and will hopefully encourage more people to get involved 💫

I'd like to apply to become a proof-reader for English (United Kingdom) please. My Crowdin username is also surfdude29.

[smileyhead]

Thank you so much!

I'd like to become a proofreader for Hungarian (as per my contribution history). My username is szijartoleventepal.

[pfrazee]

Done & done. @surfdude29 you've done a lot of meta management, especially for the smaller language groups, so I've given you proofread power of all languages.

[Signez]

Here we go! Thanks for the great work on setting this all up, I am sure it will help us tremendously in the future.

Like on a lot of services and social network, I am @Signez there too! I would like to apply as a proof-reader for the French localization.

Can’t wait to setup the glossary and similar stuff too to help other (future) translators in French!

[mlocati]

Great, @pfrazee! Thank you!

Is it possible to become a proofreader for Italian? See my pull requests at https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Amlocati+

My Crowdin username is mlocati

[nilaallj]

Thank you for setting this up! This will make things a lot easier for all of us involved.
I apply for the role as proof-reader for Swedish. Username is nilaallj.

[oops-wtf]

Oh finally things I love to see.. this should make it easier for more people to contribute 🎉

Just wondering, what will happen to the existing Crowdin project that was started by contributors earlier, like Indonesian, Ukrainian, or Chinese? Will that continue alongside the new process, or is there a plan to move everything under single manager with multiple proofreaders for each language?

[pfrazee]

It's up to them! I'll do my best to get them set up in the new project if they want. If they prefer to stay on their own projects, they can continue to send PRs as before.

[oops-wtf]

... move everything under single manager with multiple proofreaders for each language

I personally think this approach would streamline the localization process and ensure translations are updated in sync with new app releases

[pfrazee]

Yeah I would suggest using the new project, should make everyone's life easier 🤞

[Signez]

Tip to my fellow proof-readers: if you want to mass-approve all the previously merged translations (after all, they are in the live app, so you may have approved them in the past!), follow those steps:

• In Crowdin, go to the messages.po editor in your language.
• On the top right of CrowdIn's editor interface, click on the Editor View icon.

• In the little menu that appears, click on Side-by-side.
• In the second top bar, click on the Filters strings button.

• Select Advanced filter….
• In the little form that appears:
  • in front of the Approval label, select the Translated, not approved option.
  • in front of the Translated by… label, type pfrazee and select him when the autocomplete shows up.
• Apply the filter by clicking on the Filter button at the bottom of the form.
• On the top left of the main area, click on the checkbox so it selects every string. A little yellow message will allow you to really select all the strings on all the pages, click to do so.
• On the top right of the main area, you now have an Approve Selected Strings button to do a mass approval!

[Signez]

Also, @pfrazee, may I suggest that you allow proof-readers access to glossaries? If you are inclined to do so, you can enable this in the Project Settings, then Privacy & collaboration: the subsection is called Glossary Access Settings.

[Lucasofchirstms]

@Lucasofchirstms here i am, Would like to be a proof-reader on Portuguese Brazil.

My Crowdin Account: @lucasofchirst
Or https://crowdin.com/profile/lucasofchirst
(You can't see my account because it's private)

[Juanpabl]

That's a great move, thanks! I'd like to be proof-read for Aragonese. My crowdin account is: https://crowdin.com/profile/juanpabl

[mertssmnoglu]

@pfrazee Thank you so much for the Crowdin integration. That's so cool!
I would like to become a proof-reader for the Turkish.

• My Crowdin Account
• My Contributions

[luan-u]

yeehaw 🤠

I already joined the project and I'm importing the translation I currently have opened.
I would also like to become a proof-reader for Brazilian Portuguese.
My username there is luan-u (same as here).

[thinkbyte1024]

Hi @pfrazee. Thank you for setting this up. :D
I've recently contributed a lot in Indonesian section yesterday and would like to apply myself as a proof-reader. My username is also the same as the ones on Github (thinkbyte1024).

I've also previously contributed on existing Crowdin project before, provided by @kodebanget and @oops-wtf. I'll do my best to contribute into these projects whenever I can.

[pfrazee]

Also, @pfrazee, may I suggest that you allow proof-readers access to glossaries? If you are inclined to do so, you can enable this in the Project Settings, then Privacy & collaboration: the subsection is called Glossary Access Settings.

Done

[pfrazee]

@Lucasofchirstms @thinkbyte1024 appreciate yall stepping up, but we don't have quite enough history with yall yet. You're very welcome as translators for now! But I want to be slow to roll with proofreader perms.

Everybody else is approved, keep em coming

[quiple]

Nice, please assign me as a Korean proof-reader? Username is quiple.

[vinhphm]

Thank @pfrazee. I would like to become a proofreader for Vietnamese (as per my contribution history). My username on Crowdin is vinhphm.

[pfrazee]

Done & done

[auroursa]

Thanks @pfrazee! I’d like to apply for the Simplified Chinese proofreader, my Crowdin username is cynosura.

On behalf of the Chinese localization team, I’d also like to suggest assigning the following proofreader roles:
• Traditional Chinese to @cirx1e (Crowdin username: cirx1e)
• Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) to @hakadao (Crowdin username: hakadao)

They are native speakers of their respective languages, and have been actively maintaining them.

[pfrazee]

@auroursa fantastic, sent invites to all 3 of you with the correct perms

[auroursa]

@pfrazee Thank you for taking the time to do this! I can now approve Simplified Chinese translation strings.

Apologies for not considering this earlier, but if possible, could I also have proofreader permissions for the other Chinese locales? I’d like to continue coordinating Chinese translations and help smoothly transition the Bluesky ZH project to the official Crowdin. Once that’s done, I’ll close Bluesky ZH.

[Lucasofchirstms]

@pfrazee Why @luan-u is a proof-reader if you said him didn't have history enough?

[thinkbyte1024]

@Lucasofchirstms @thinkbyte1024 appreciate yall stepping up, but we don't have quite enough history with yall yet. You're very welcome as translators for now! But I want to be slow to roll with proofreader perms.

Everybody else is approved, keep em coming

Ah, I see. Thank you for the response.

Although this is just my proposal for volunteering as a proof-reader if you need one. I think I'm currently happy with my position as translator for now. I'd still be contributing to it from time to time.

[surfdude29]

Pinging commenters on recent Ukrainian PRs in case they want to consider using the new Crowdin project:

@Azelen, @cosmonaut-ok, @DanikVitek, @Dovgonosyk, @imax9000, @oprudkyi

[Dovgonosyk]

Thank you @surfdude29 and @pfrazee! I would like to apply to become a proof-reader for Ukrainian. My Crowdin username is vdovgonosyk

[surfdude29]

Pinging some other recent localization commenters, reviewers and contributors in case you want to get involved with Bluesky translations on Crowdin :)

@alexandregz, @anxo-gal, @ArtfulAzeria, @atiksoftware, @atlj, @axiand, @bekatoros, @c960657, @carlosvieito, @CoderMungan, @Datagraver, @DearFox, @dhkabayel, @divyaswormakai, @dgruano, @dpkgme, @emreylmaz, @FalKoopa, @Flitskikker, @garaguide, @GersonLazaro, @imertz, @ipinak, @IslamRustamov, @IvanBarLem, @kscanne, @mglbranco, @ponfertato, @REALSOULMAN, @Rinechxn, @SleeplessByte, @SokCheasrouch, @stergioc, @Virenbar, @xurxogp

If not relevant, please accept my apologies for the tag.

[pfrazee]

Cleared all requests so far. @Lucasofchirstms we'll update over time, it's not a perfect system

[Lucasofchirstms]

@pfrazee Okay, sorry for interruption

[SleeplessByte]

I made an account, but this is being a turd. This is absolutely a valid email address.

FYI I obviously made an account and got a verification email, but when a system has these basic things incorrectly, I am always worried about the rest of their product.

[SleeplessByte]

@pfrazee I'd like to proofread Dutch (SleeplessByte).

FYI there are quite a few texts in English that completely miss the mark, especially alt texts and aria-labels. Bluesky is completely missing the mark on being accessible (with zero priority to accessibility issues), but perhaps someone could also be looking at that? I didn't see way to contribute to the source material (other than convoluted PR process here).

[hakadao]

Thank you @pfrazee ! I have the approve button now. Thank you for taking the time to help.

[auroursa]

Pinging @cirx1e just wanted to check if you’ve been given proofreader permissions. It seems that people who join the project via an email invite link only get translator permissions.

[cirx1e]

Pinging @cirx1e just wanted to check if you’ve been given proofreader permissions. It seems that people who join the project via an email invite link only get translator permissions.

Originally posted by @auroursa (#7685 (comment))

I can see the approve button. Thanks for confirming!

[softinterlingua]

I want to request (again) to add interlingua (#6644) to your new project, import our existing translations and to request proofread permissions for my user (SoftInterlingua) at Crowdin if possible. Considering the language is not supported officially, i included the parameters to add it as a custom language in that issue.

[voi-tech]

Thank you @surfdude29 and @pfrazee! I would like to apply to become a proof-reader for Polish. My Crowdin username is voitech

[ponfertato]

@pfrazee am ready to try myself as a Proof-readers for translation into Russian, profile in Crowdin: https://crowdin.com/profile/ponfertato

[whoisanku]

Awesome. Will surf through crowdin :) thx for the update Paul!

[c960657]

I previously contributed the Danish translation (#7220). I would like to become a proof-reader for Danish. My Crowdin username is c960657.

[Hima-Zinn]

@pfrazee Thank you.
Let me join the proof-reader.
My Crowdin account: Hima-Zinn

[imax9000]

I've exported the glossary items from the Ukrainian translation project: https://gist.github.com/imax9000/58cecbbf06724ed9bdfca7cdb8fd44ba

[surfdude29]

@pfrazee Have you decided how often the source English messages.po file will be updated and new strings pushed to Crowdin? I don't know what would work best for other translators, but I think the more time available to work on translating and discussing new strings before a release is cut, the better :)

[auroursa]

It would be great if it could be automated—automatically pushing new strings to Crowdin and periodically pulling them to GitHub.

[Signez]

Indeed, it would be awesome if at least the push operation (new English strings being pushed to Crowdin to be translated) could become part of a CI action that would be triggered when PR are merged in the main branch!

(I can understand tho that @pfrazee wants to keep the pull operation, i.e. getting our translations back into the product, as a manual, yet easy to do operation, as it's now documented.)

[REALSOULMAN]

Pinging some other recent localization commenters, reviewers and contributors in case you want to get involved with Bluesky translations on Crowdin :)

@alexandregz, @anxo-gal, @ArtfulAzeria, @atiksoftware, @atlj, @axiand, @bekatoros, @c960657, @carlosvieito, @CoderMungan, @Datagraver, @DearFox, @dhkabayel, @divyaswormakai, @dgruano, @dpkgme, @emreylmaz, @FalKoopa, @Flitskikker, @garaguide, @GersonLazaro, @imertz, @ipinak, @IslamRustamov, @IvanBarLem, @kscanne, @mglbranco, @ponfertato, @REALSOULMAN, @Rinechxn, @SleeplessByte, @SokCheasrouch, @stergioc, @Virenbar, @xurxogp

If not relevant, please accept my apologies for the tag.

Thank you for the mention!
I signed up in Crowdin with the username Realsoulman. I'd like to be proof-reader for Basque.
I can translate spanish (from Spain) too, so, I will take translator role in there too. If you need a proof-reader for it, I can do that too.
Regards.

[aryiu]

@pfrazee Thank you! I would like to join as a proofreader for Catalan. I'm aryiu on Crowdin.

[surfdude29]

@auroursa @Signez Yes exactly 👍

Others will know better than me what will work best, but – like @Signez suggests – a CI action that basically does steps 6 and 7 in the release process sounds like it might be ideal, as it would mean that the strings available for translation on Crowdin would always be updated with main.

I'm not sure if it would be necessary to run it after every PR is merged though... I see that Crowdin has a useful option to notify users of when new strings are added, and if several PRs which update strings are merged in a short space of time that might cause a bit of notifications overload 😅

Perhaps once a day might be enough?

[ivanbea]

Nice, I would like to be the Catalan proofreader, my username on Crowdin is ivanbea. Thanks

[carlosvieito]

Thank you @pfrazee! I offer my services as a Galician translator, my username on Crowdin is carlosvieito. This tool will make it much easier to keep up to date with translations.

[softastur]

Welp, @softastur has this GitHub account for the whole organization but each member has individual accounts. @pfrazee, could you add the @enolp user as proofreader on Crowdin? Thank you.

[pfrazee]

@softinterlingua done, responding to your other issue

Covered all requests for proofreader

[onurravli]

Hey, @pfrazee my Crowdin username is onurravli and I want to be a proofreader for Turkish language, thanks!