Build Your Locale Style Guide
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The document discusses the importance of creating a translation style guide for enhancing consistency, quality, and contributor engagement in localization efforts. It outlines the basic elements that should be included, such as writing tone and branding, and provides steps for developing a locale-specific style guide while referencing existing guides from various organizations. The document emphasizes that everyone involved in translation should invest time in developing a style guide to streamline processes and reduce inconsistencies.
Build Your Locale Style Guide
- 1. Build Your Locale Style Guide Naoko Takano | WordPress Global Translation Day #2, Nov 2016 #WPTranslationDay
- 2. Globalizer (Automattic) WordPress Japanese Translator since 2003 WordCamp Tokyo 2016 Co-Lead @naokomc / en.naoko.cc Naoko Takano
- 3. What is a Translation Style Guide?
- 4. ‣ Coding standards ‣ Writing style guide/manual ‣ Design/UI guidelines Think…
- 6. ‣ Increase consistency ‣ Enhance quality ‣ Engage more contributors ‣ Deter arguments ‣ Reduce rework A Style Guide can help:
- 8. 1. Czech 2. French (France) 3. German 4. Greek 5. Hebrew 6. Japanese 7. Romanian 8. Russian 9. Slovak 10. Spanish (Spain) 11. Swedish 11 Teams https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/list-of-glossaries-per-locale/
- 10. Everyone.
- 11. Invest time to save time.
- 13. ‣ Writing tone ‣ Punctuation ‣ Formatting ‣ Branding ‣ Special rules Include:
- 14. Step 1-1: Find existing style guides in your locale
- 19. Step 1-2: Find style guides in English or other locales
- 21. Step 2: Think of common inconsistencies issues
- 23. ‣ Mozilla Style Guide: Translation https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/communications/translation/ ‣ L10n:Teams:tl/Style Guide - MozillaWiki https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams:tl/Style_Guide ‣ Microsoft Language Portal | Style Guide https://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/StyleGuides.aspx ‣ Guidelines for translation contractors https://ec.europa.eu/info/translation/guidelines_en ‣ WordPress.com Translation Style Guide https://translate.wordpress.com/translation-style-guide/ ‣ Gengo Translation Resources https://gengo.com/translators/resources/