{"id":4047,"date":"2017-04-21T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017.europe.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&p=4047"},"modified":"2017-05-10T19:48:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:48:32","slug":"how-translation-sprints-helps-bring-in-new-contributors","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/how-translation-sprints-helps-bring-in-new-contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"How Translation Sprints Help Bring in New Contributors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For WordPress 4.6 release video subtitle captioning and translation to few Indian languages we organized a translation sprint.<\/p>\n

As India has many languages, we made small teams based on languages. We paired expert contributors with new ones.<\/p>\n

We mainly did three things:<\/p>\n

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  1. Created teams, so there was a sense of team\/togetherness among contributors<\/li>\n
  2. Each team had a leader, so learning was smooth<\/li>\n
  3. Each team has a goal, so every team has something to accomplish<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The result was that new contributors learned overall contribution process much faster and became motivated.<\/p>\n

    Many of those first-time contributors went ahead and still contributing.<\/p>\n

    As an example – the Gujarati language, one of language we set up a team for, was at 60% completion when the meetup started. During the meetup, we finished an additional 10%, but many new translators worked on weekends and overnight to get Gujarati translation to 100% in less than a week.<\/p>\n

    We believe other community meetups and events can use this sprints to gain more\/returning contributors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For WordPress 4.6 release video subtitle captioning and translation to few Indian languages we organized a translation sprint. As India has many languages, we made small teams based on languages. We paired expert contributors with new ones. We mainly did three things: Created teams, so there was a sense of team\/togetherness among contributors Each team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7230939,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1490943600,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[4045],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-4047","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7DKI8-13h","session_date_time":{"date":"March 31, 2017","time":"7:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"4045","slug":"rahul-bansal","name":"Rahul Bansal","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/rahul-bansal\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7230939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5728,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4047\/revisions\/5728"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}