号召：成立汉化组（Call to Action: Form a Chinese Localization Group）

[SparkofSpike]

CodeWhale 是个大项目，有海量的文档。虽然后期借助了 LLM 来翻译，但翻译那些文档进中文已经耗费了我太多的心神。后期英文文档更新，中文文档应当一起同步。然而，AI翻译的技术文档质量，大家懂得都懂——只停留在“能读”，至于看着费不费劲，那是另一码事。

不只是我们 CodeWhale，其他许多开源项目也面临着这样的困境。我希望能够牵头成立一个小型的汉化组，用爱发电，去汉化、跟进开源的英文项目或日文项目，让更多的简中网友能了解到这些它们。不仅让这些优秀的项目免于雪藏，也降低了许多项目的使用门槛。

如果有意愿加入此组的，请在此 Discussion 下留言。到时候我会建立一个 QQ 群，把大家都拉进去。到时候我们一起合作，打通语言壁垒。

开源万岁，协作万岁，共享万岁，知识万岁！

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CodeWhale is a large project with a huge amount of documentation. Although we later used LLMs to help translate it, translating those documents into Chinese still cost me far too much time and energy. Going forward, when the English docs are updated, the Chinese docs should be synced as well. However, everyone knows the quality of AI-translated technical documentation—it only reaches the level of “readable.” Whether it’s actually easy to read is another matter entirely.

It’s not just CodeWhale. Many other open-source projects face the same predicament. I hope to take the lead in forming a small Chinese localization group, powered by love rather than money, to translate and keep up with open-source English or Japanese projects, so that more Simplified Chinese-speaking users can learn about them. This would not only keep these excellent projects from being buried and forgotten, but also lower the barrier to entry for many of them.

If you’re interested in joining this group, please leave a comment under this Discussion. I’ll then create a QQ group and invite everyone in. Together, we can work to break down language barriers.

Long live open-source! Long live collaboration! Long live sharing! Long live knowledge!

[SparkofSpike]

肯定会有人觉得这没必要。但我觉得千里之行始于足下，或者说不积小流无以成江海。

现在，大部分文本都是AIGC——我这不是在怪罪 Hmbown 兄弟，他已经很尽力了，换作我，我肯定连i18n都没想到，但他竟然同时维护这么多语言。我觉得我们这样做，也是为 Hmbown 和像他一样的人减轻一部分负担。

语言的壁垒是真实存在的，我听说很多外国人看中国汉字都看得头昏，可能 Hmbown 老兄也觉得我们汉语的方块字有点难懂。既然如此，我们就成立一个志愿的汉化组吧！就让我们来帮他，也帮 CodeWhale 这条大鲸鱼，这样效率更高。

欢迎所有想要给 Codewhale 贡献、但是却觉得无从下手的人——路就在这里！

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Some people will definitely think this is unnecessary. But I believe that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step—or, as the saying goes, without accumulating small streams, one cannot form rivers and seas.

Right now, most of the text is AIGC—I’m not blaming our friend Hmbown for this. He’s already trying his best. If it were me, I definitely wouldn’t have even thought of i18n, yet he’s actually maintaining so many languages at the same time. I think by doing this, we’re also easing some of the burden for Hmbown and people like him.

Language barriers are real. I’ve heard that many foreigners get dizzy just looking at Chinese characters, and maybe Hmbown bro also finds our Chinese square characters a little hard to understand. That being the case, let’s form a volunteer Chinese localization group! Let’s help him, and help CodeWhale—this big whale—so that we can be more efficient.

Everyone who wants to contribute to CodeWhale but feels at a loss about where to start is welcome—the path is right here!

[SparkofSpike]

Eh, maybe I should raise an issue since few people come here.

@Hmbown, may I?

[SparkofSpike]

Yes, but I actually haven’t joined CodeWhale’s WeChat group... In fact, I don’t really use WeChat much—I just use it as my work inbox and my cyber wallet. There’s too much personal stuff in my WeChat Moments, so I’ve never planned to join WeChat groups. I’m really sorry.😭

[SparkofSpike]

I'll go ahead and file an issue tomorrow, then. Tomorrow isn't a workday—it's the start of our seven consecutive days off. If you're willing, could you forward my issue to the WeChat group when the time comes?

[Hmbown]

Yes, will do!!

[SparkofSpike]

The issue has been created. Thank you for your continued contributions.

I was very busy for a while, but I never dropped the Chinese localization documentation work. Because, honestly, I really love the CodeWhale project.

If using an Agent is like falling in love, then CodeWhale is my first love. Before I came across CodeWhale, my use of AI was limited to using the Deepseek web version or the ChatGPT web version to help me design a document; or, when a piece of code had an error, I would send out the whole file and have them help me find it. Honestly, that was very inefficient. I was searching for Deepseek earlier—originally I wanted to see if there were any open-source small-parameter models I could deploy locally—and I unexpectedly found Deepseek-TUI. Through a series of coincidences, I only then started learning about Agents, and later began using ClaudeCode, Codex...

To be honest, I was very insecure about my abilities at first, and I didn’t dare submit PRs on GitHub. This has to do with my past experience—years ago, when I was still in school, I submitted a PR to an open-source project, and the maintainer said what I wrote was complete shit. Ever since then, I’ve been afraid to fix bugs or share my work on GitHub. To my surprise, after taking one tentative step forward—while using CodeWhale, I found a bug, nervously submitted an issue with a proposed fix, and then submitted some PRs—I discovered that most people in the open-source community are actually wonderful!

I consider myself articulate, but at this moment I suddenly can't put my feelings into words... I read through the English documentation, learned how to use this agent, and introduced this whale to others. But people whose English isn't good enough always can't understand what the documentation is saying. For them, this is a real barrier. So from very early on, I wanted to take over this part of the work. Because my own coding ability is very limited—I know I'm not as experienced as you all. But I truly hope I can help you with translating the documentation!

It may already be evening where you are now; I'm sorry for taking up your time.It was your one “thank you for your commit” and “thank you for your PR” after another that brought me out of the shadows, so I want to return this kindness to you. What I want to express is simply this:

Thank you, thank you very much, and truly thank you very much, Hmbown!

[Hmbown]

Wow. Thank you so so much for sharing this. You have not taken up my time at all -- this is exactly why Codewhale exists. I love the project because of experiences like yours that this can create. I believe so strongly in the power of open-source and the community it can build around shared goals.

This is such a new and exciting era for all of us, and to me, you exemplify the spirit of what Codewhale is about. No matter how many coding agents I use, I will never have your lived experience or your perspective as a Chinese native. Nothing about AGI will be able to change this. And so -- please understand that I consider what you offer with your time and attention a true, true gift, and I have no doubt that other users do, as well. It is a wonderful thing that we can build things for others all across the world now. Thank you, thank you for all work past, present, and future - but most importantly for taking the time to bring your real self to the Codewhale community.