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TL;DR\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span>We did it! WordPress 4.7 will be the first WordPress version with 100% Urdu translation! Thanks to 110 translators. #WPTranslationday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Urdu is my mother tongue and the national\/official language in PK. I always wanted to help make WordPress more accessible by translating it in Urdu. So, I decided to take the initiative to bring WordPress in Urdu by finding, helping and teaching more than 60 translators.<\/p>\n

What Am I Trying To Pull Off?#<\/a><\/h3>\n

I am trying to help the local community realize just how powerful the WordPress software is. It helps me put food on the table; I get to join an incredible family of friendly developers \u2014 throughout the world \u2014 in the form of our WordPress Community. And heck, as a Full Stack Web Developer<\/a>,\u00a0I make excellent web\u00a0products like themes, plugins and in the near future, a WP based SaaS App.<\/p>\n

Next Ten Years With WordPress!#<\/a><\/h3>\n

So, to help with the WordPress adoption in my country, I have set different goals. In the next ten years, I want WordPress to have the maximum adoption in Pakistan \u2014 as compared to other CMS’s.\u00a0While this is a stretch goal, I believe I can do it.<\/p>\n

I have started teaching young software engineers especially those in their freshman or sophomore years at the universities and colleges \u2014 who I believe will be the next generation of software developers that will make or break as I like to call it \u2014\u00a0the next WordPress<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Helping However I Can!#<\/a><\/h3>\n

To help\u00a0spread the word, I have started teaching small groups of software developers about how to participate in the open source community by making FOSS (Free and Open Source Software).<\/p>\n

Instead of coding boot camps, one can learn a lot more by actually contributing to an open source software like WP and by interacting with other developers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, I taught about 15 contributors about how to help others with their WP problems by contributing their time and participating in the Global WordPress Contribution Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Right after that,\u00a0Petya Raykovska<\/a>\u00a0from Bulgaria arranged WP Global translation day but being more involved with code side of things as a core contributor<\/a>; I didn’t participate \u2014 only to later regret that. Though, when she arranged another\u00a0WP Global Translation Day 2<\/a>\u00a0I knew I had to do something.<\/p>\n

How Did It All Get Started?#<\/a><\/h3>\n

I knew my skill set as a translator was as bad as it could be. But I thought \u2014 this shouldn’t stop me from teaching people and helping them get ahead? That’s exactly what I did. As a dev, I know how WP translation works, basics of L10n and I18n was something that I could teach people, add to it, the\u00a0ease of translating WordPress via Translate blog<\/a>\u00a0I figured, we might just end up translating WP in Urdu. I had arranged a friendly helping with the help of<\/p>\n

That’s it. Long story short, Petya helped me in getting things ready, and a bunch of us participated in the Global WordPress Translation Day 2. <\/span>I had arranged a small meetup in Lahore with the help of\u00a0Ashar Irfan<\/a>, Hassan Raza, and a few others, but most of us were online in WP-Pakistan.Slack.com<\/a>\u00a0(join us<\/a>) team,\u00a0where inside the #translators channel people started to translate WP in Urdu.<\/p>\n

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100% WordPress Translation in Urdu#<\/a><\/h3>\n

In about a week, many folks like Saqib Ameen<\/a>, Hassan Raza<\/a>, Bilal Khan<\/a> and everyone mentioned below (now part of the WP Urdu translation team<\/a>)\u00a0did their level best to contribute. All I did was to teach people what is what and how is how! They took it from there and now we have an active team contributing on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

?\u00a0We have finally translated WordPress dev\/trunk in Urdu. IMHO this is the first 100% WordPress to Urdu translation. Which essentially means that next major release of WordPress i.e. 4.7 in December will have a 100% Urdu translated variant.<\/p>\n

\u26a1\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> This is HUGE!<\/p>\n

Now, WordPress can be used for Govt. sites where a11y is a requirement at least for both Eng\/Urdu languages. There are more than 3,000 Urdu Bloggers and a community of 1 Million active Urdu writers in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

I’d like to thank every single contributor on the team<\/a> for helping me in making this dream of mine a reality.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Contributors’ Remarks!#<\/a><\/h2>\n

“I think this translation initiative will provide motivation to other contributors for the future translation of WordPress in the Urdu language. We have made it to 100% Urdu translation for the first time in the history of WordPress through this initiative. I hope more and more Pakistani WordPressers contribute to keeping the translation of the future version of WordPress to 100% in the future.”<\/p>\n