Call for documentation translators

Special Interest Groups SIG Documentation
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Aux has excellent ideas, and we want people to be able to read them.

We think it’s important to localize the docs from the start of writing them!

Reason: (why do you want to localize the docs?)
Languages and fluency: (What languages can you speak and how fluent are you in them?)

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Reason: It would be great to make Aux more accessible to other audiences.
Languages: Spanish (native), Galician (native), English (proficient), so I could help with an Spanish translation should we create one :3

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I want to make Aux more accessible to brazilian users.
I speak portuguese (native), english (fluent) and spanish (fluent).

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Hello @srestegosaurio, you mentioned you wanted to help with translation - thanks!

What languages are you proficient in?

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I’m a native Spanish speaker and while my orthography is not yet perfect I also speak Catalonian.
And I manage with English too.

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I’m fluent in english and german, learning portuguese (beginner) now. Happy to contribute those language skills where needed.

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I’m near-native in Chinese and I’d love to help with localization in an attempt to help me understand the technical systems better, as well as making the docs more accessible as others have also mentioned.

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I also would not mind helping translate the documentation to german

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I would be happy to contribute to german documentation too :slight_smile:

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I would like to contribute the italian translation

Reason: I’d love to make Aux known and accessible in Italy
Languages and fluency: italian (native), english (proficient, C1)

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I am interested too about the german translation.

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I’m a native Japanese speaker, and although my English isn’t perfect, I’m interested in contributing to Japanese documentation. I can also speak Portuguese, but unfortunately, I’m unable to write in it.

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I’m interested in the french translation :slight_smile:

I’m native in french, fluent in english (at least written).

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Thanks for all the replies, I’ll do my best to add you all to the translation team. I think a good place to start would be with this post

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Reason: I can help out if really needed (like maybe we’re short staffed for a review), but would like to put the primary focus of my efforts elsewhere.
Languages & fluency:

  • Read:
    • Danish (professionally).
    • English (professionally).
    • Swedish (professionally).
    • Norwegian (professionally).
    • German (slow comprehension).
    • French (basic comprehension).
    • Dutch (basic comprehension).
    • Japanese (very basic comprehension).
  • Write:
    • Danish (professionally).
    • English (professionally).
    • Swedish (passable).
    • Norwegian (passable).
    • German (comprehensible).
    • French (slowly comprehensible).
    • Japanese (very slowly comprehensible).
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where’s the “holy f**** s*** this is impressive” emojy?

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Reason: I want to help and I don’t know much else, also I don’t think it will hurt to have documentation in a language I know.

Languages: Russian - Native, English - I think I am proficient

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Just a heads up we are currently rate limited for invites and team additons but feel free to to get started with some PRs to the website.

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It’s just a matter of formatting really - and time I suppose. The actual flow of thing is a lot more straight forward:

  • Knowing Danish, it does not take a lot of practical application to have Swedish and Norwegian mostly down on this level (or the other way around). Decades (ouch) of working with colleagues speaking those languages as well as consulting there does not hurt ofc.
    • Interesting detail is I get quite tired if I try a full day of either - given the constant “they’re pretty much the same, but not quite” micro-adjustments, so when consulting I would usually only do that until lunch and then we would swap to EN after lunch.
  • English is taught 3rd grade up in DK and ofc. there’s plenty exposure in media & IT.
  • German & French are common choices for third language in DK grade school. Only you usually only get to pick one. My school had the “brilliant” idea of experimenting with our year, trying to teach us both at the same time. It went about as badly as you can imagine - hence “comprehensible”. I have had more need of German though, so doing better there than French.
  • Dutch is pretty interesting once you have a bit of French, German, English, and DK/SE/NO. No way I could hope to phrase anything, but following the news for example usually works.
  • Japanese is just personal interest and a year or two of Duolingo. ほんの少し日本語.

Hence just offering basic “is this someone trying to sneak in their armadillo rights manifesto?”-level review assist if we’re like really pressed for resources :wink:

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