Why WPCredits?
I’m Sebastián Méndez, a Computer Systems Engineering student at Fidélitas University in Costa Rica. I’m currently enrolled in the WPCredits program, and one of the program’s activities is making real-world contributions to the WordPress.
Why Polyglots?
Among the available contribution areas, I chose Polyglots because the impact is immediate and verifiable. Every string I translate into Costa Rican Spanish (es_CR) becomes part of the software that real users in Costa Rica interact with. It’s worth mentioning that another motivation for choosing this contribution area is that the es_CR language has very few active contributors, meaning my work has a direct impact.
My specific project
I will translate 100 text strings from the Astra theme into Costa Rican Spanish on translate.wordpress.org.
What I knew before starting
Before this program, I used WordPress as a tool, but I had never seen it as a community. I didn’t know what a locale was, what translate.wordpress.org was, or that thousands of volunteers keep WordPress running in every language.
What comes next
In the next few posts, I’ll share my workflow, covering topics like accessing translate.wordpress.org and finding the Astra strings for es_CR.
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