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I chose the WordPress Polyglots team because translation is a direct way to improve WordPress for people who do not work in English. It also combines language, technical precision, and community review, so the contribution has an immediate practical result while teaching how an open-source team coordinates quality.

Why Polyglots

Polyglots contributions are visible and measurable on translate.wordpress.org. Each suggestion has a source string, a locale, a status, and a review workflow. That structure made it possible to define a real deliverable instead of an abstract goal. I selected Spanish (Costa Rica), locale es_CR, because the contribution is connected to my local language community and requires choices that are not always identical to other Spanish locales.

Why Astra

I selected the Astra theme translation project because it had a substantial untranslated backlog and many user-facing strings with meaningful context. The work included interface labels, configuration descriptions, navigation controls, and help text. This provided enough variety to demonstrate more than one kind of localization problem.

Scope and success criteria

My confirmed course minimum was 100 strings. I set a larger personal target and completed 150 suggestions to create a reasonable buffer for editorial review. Success meant more than reaching a number: every placeholder and HTML element had to remain intact; ambiguous or malformed sources had to be skipped; translations had to follow the formal “usted” voice and sentence-case conventions of es_CR; and the final set needed a public reviewer request.

Reflection

This choice gave the project a clear community, artifact, and definition of done. The most important lesson was that translation is not isolated word replacement. It is a software-quality activity that depends on context, consistency, locale rules, and respectful collaboration with volunteer editors.