planned translations - tracking issue

[rgommers]

Let's keep this as a tracking issue for the translations that are planned / we have volunteers for. Comments welcome from anyone who wants to take the lead on an issue.

[jangid]

Thanks Ralf for creating this. I would be contributing to English -> Hindi translations.

[seberg]

I can/could do German, although I doubt it would be super useful. Not quite sure, but French might be an interesting target because it is probably a fairly common second language in Africa?

[rgommers]

Yeah, I wouldn't do German (or Dutch for that matter). Only the major languages where English would be a big barrier to participation. 99.x% of our German users will speak English well enough.

[jangid]

1. Should we start working on the `NumPy-survey-questionnaire.md` document? Or we just wait for the finalized version. 2. What naming convention to use for filenames? Should I use `NumPy-survey-questionnaire-hi.md` for Hindi translations?

[InessaPawson]

@jangid Thank you for volunteering to translate the NumPy community survey into Hindi, Pankaj!

1. We need to finalize the questionnaire first. I’ll contact you as soon as it’s ready.

2. I’d prefer NumPy-survey-questionnaire-hindi.md

[jangid]

@InessaPawson 👍 Sounds like a plan. "-hindi.md" suffix is fine. More clear.

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-- Pankaj Jangid

[InessaPawson]

@seberg Indeed all the Germans I've met so far are fluent in English. Thank you for offering your help anyways!

[pentschev]

I can help with Portuguese if necessary.

[InessaPawson]

@pentschev That would be great! I’ll contact you as soon as the questionnaire is ready for translations.

[zjpoh]

I just saw this. 😃 I can help with translating to Mandarin and/or Malay / Indonesian if that's in scope.

[rgommers]

Google tells me 23 million Indonesian speakers (sounds low?) and 39 million Malay speakers. I don't know where the cutoff is, but it could be a nice thing to do.

[zjpoh]

Ya. I think there are way more Indonesian speaker than Malaysian just by country population. But most Malaysian (can't speak for Indonesian) speaks English so I'm not sure if that's necessary.

[rgommers]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Indonesia says 80% of the 210 million Indonesians speak Indonesian. So then yes, seems very worthwhile to do.

[InessaPawson]

I just saw this. 😃 I can help with translating to Mandarin and/or Malay / Indonesian if that's in scope.

Thank you, ZJ!

[kikocorreoso]

Hi all,

I can be in charge of the spanish translation. Just let me know when the questionare is finished.