Title: important impulse
Last modified: April 3, 2017

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# important impulse

 *  [Steffen Voß](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffeeringe/)
 * (@kaffeeringe)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-impulse/)
 * In open-source projects internationalisation is often a neglected field. The 
   first developer is happy to have the project up and the code running. Then people
   come in who would like to have the UI in their language. Translation starts. 
   And often the first translators set standards for the wording: Is it an addon,
   a module, a plugin or an extension? The same applies for all areas of the UI 
   and often you end up with a solution that does the job – the code is running.
   Users basically understand your UI. But after years of working good enough, in
   other parts of the code reevaluation begins and people start rewriting the code.
   You rarely see that in translations. The world turns, the web changes, society
   changes. Is a word still the best word after 10 years? What was called a module
   years ago would naturally be called “app” today.
 * I like the intension of Stringintelligenz, questioning the tradition and breaking
   it, where it seems suitable. I have to look up, what the permissions and the 
   roles are every now and then. Why not name the roles accordingly? When I edit
   a user’s permissions why do I have to know what an administrator does or what
   an editor does? Why not list the permissions in the dropdown? “Write and Release”,“
   Write, Release and Administer” and so on. This is not only a question of translation.
   This could be picked up by the Englisch version too!
 * BTW: “Open Source is an ideology too…” 😉
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [Steffen Voß](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffeeringe/).
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