Localization and Linguists Updates - Recap Call (Nov 22nd)
Hi Everyone,
Thank you very much for joining the call yesterday and for sharing your thoughts and questions.
I'd like to summarize what was discussed in this post, for those who attended the call but mostly for those who missed it. I want to reiterate that your feedback and your input is very important for us and we heard it very loud and clear, and this is why we are proposing a permanent solution that will hopefully stabilize the situation.
Here you can find the recording of the call, for those of you who couldn't join us.
Here you can find the deck that was presented during the call.
Here are some of the key points we discussed:
For the top 5 languages:
For the remaining 8 languages:
A few last important points & next steps:
Best Regards,
Tamar, on behalf of the Waze Communities Team
Thank you very much for joining the call yesterday and for sharing your thoughts and questions.
I'd like to summarize what was discussed in this post, for those who attended the call but mostly for those who missed it. I want to reiterate that your feedback and your input is very important for us and we heard it very loud and clear, and this is why we are proposing a permanent solution that will hopefully stabilize the situation.
Here you can find the recording of the call, for those of you who couldn't join us.
Here you can find the deck that was presented during the call.
Here are some of the key points we discussed:
- Following some feedback from our top 13 languages localizers, regarding the frustration around collaborating with the linguists, we understood that a permanent and stable solution needed to be found.
- After trying for quite some time to set up a collaboration process with the linguists, we came to the conclusion that a permanent solution could be found only with a clear separation of translation projects and responsibilities.
- In order to allow this project separation, we will have a distinction between the top 5 languages and the remaining 8.
For the top 5 languages:
- The community will have full control over the WME, the Newsletter and other strictly community related projects, while the linguists will have full control over other projects including the app.
- It is important to say that we still want the community involved in these top 5 languages, you guys are essential in order to have good localization, and we value your feedback as gold.
- We will set up a very defined and clear escalation path for you to report issues with translations. The community will be more of localization advisors and your feedback is crucial.
For the remaining 8 languages:
- The community will have full control over the WME, the Newsletter and over Waze Core projects, including the app.
- With great power comes great responsibility, and it is important for you to understand that we will be counting 100% on you to translate these projects.
A few last important points & next steps:
- We still need your feedback for the top 5 languages and an effective feedback and escalation process will be put in place.
- This solution will give full responsibility to the remaining 8 languages, therefore if some communities from these 8 languages prefer to transfer the translation responsibility to linguists please let us know ASAP.
- Nothing is changing today! We will update with the timelines.
- All other languages that are not part of the top 13 languages will continue to translate as usual, there is absolutely no change in this regard.
Best Regards,
Tamar, on behalf of the Waze Communities Team
Re: Localization and Linguists Updates - Recap Call (Nov 22n