In a brief moment of insanity, I went over the strings for WordPress Mobile iOS and translated most of them. They are getting more and more difficult as the translation percentage approaches 100%. No surprise there that the people maintaining the Canadian language were unable to translate the final 2% 😜.
I may be able to get that number to 98 as well but 100 looks out of reach. Some strings in the app mean absolutely nothing to me and even the translations to other languages make no sense. I’ll post an update once the next Jetpack Mobile appears with these translations. Really curious to see if I got it sufficiently right to make the UI feel Bulgarian. Bulgarian has lots of gendered words, transliterated terminology, plurals where one expects singulars and so on.
And Happy Birthday to WordPress.com!
Veselin.blog 
Thanks for all the work you and your coworkers do to keep WP running.
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You are welcome! This is not part of my job, the WordPress app is open source and anyone can contribute.
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What do you meananyone can contribute? Automatic doesn’t provide all the development?
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WordPress means at least two separate things. The software is open source and anyone can submit PRs for it (code changes), or can translate to their language using translate.wordpress.org. The wordpress.com service is run by Automattic.
WordPress.com heavily relies on open source software and makes the code public even for pieces that are not used outside of Automattic. Like the dashboard UI is open source, most of the backend tweaks are published as open source plugins or directly contributed to WordPress itself.
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OMG, I thought WordPress was hosted and recieved all the development from Automatic. That is scary that othres can contribute and maybe that’s way things can get crazy at times. I’m well aware of the lawsuit and hope it works out for the best for all. If I understand correctly WP.org is developed by WP employees. Just something to keep in mind if the lawsuit goes south. I’m on Automatic’s side in the matter. I know you can’t talk about that. The idea that anyone can contribute development to WP.com is crazy.
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I meant to tell you, about two weeks ago I could note log into my account for close to four days, a nice guy from Automatic email me and helped me get logged back in. Very nice of him.
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Scary!
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I’m meant WP on my computer
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That’s weird WP is only 20 when I started my first blog in 2005.
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I started my first blog in 2004, WordPress 1.2. WordPress.com is 20-years-old, the software is 2 years older.
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Got it. I knew I had my dates right because I was grieving my granny dying.
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I’m sorry about your granny 😦
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🙂
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So your say we were some of the very first WP bloggers?
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I was not close to the first. Prior to WP, I would build my own CMS-es, I wrote several from scratch, starting with an empty index.php. One of these was a typical blog. WP democratized all of that work, made it more available to everyone.
Actually, now that I think about it, my first two sites where I blogged, where static html files, and the first was built around 1998.
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I am not that technical but remember I starting blogging on Blogger first but not for long.
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One of my old blogspots still gets visitors once in a blue moon
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wow, you didn’t close it down?
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2015 for me. I think WordPress is amazing. The community is so supportive, unlike what I’ve heard about other social media sites, which I don’t have any involvement with.
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Not how I would spend my free time 😊
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