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+:layout: post
+:title: A Big Step of the Chinese Localization
+:tags:
+- general
+- community
+- localization
+- chinese
+:author: linuxsuren
+---
+
+Since 2017, I started to do some contributions to the Jenkins community. As a beginner, translation might be
+the easiest way to help the project. You don't need to understand the whole context, even to create a ticket in the
+issue tracker system. Improvement of localization usually is minor. But some problems occurred soon,
+there isn't a native speaker of Chinese that could review my PRs. So, sometimes my PRs
+are delayed from being merged into master.
+
+Some contributors told me that I can start a thread at the mailing list. Normally, discussing at the mailing list
+is the open source community way. We got a lot of ideas for the localization from there. As a result,
+we achieved some goals that I'd like to share here.
+
+== JEP-216
+
+Previously, language localization files were distributed in core and in each plugin.
+For https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/blob/master/jep/216/README.adoc[this proposal], each language has a single localization plugin, such as https://github.com/jenkinsci/localization-zh-cn-plugin[Chinese Localization plugin].
+Finally, https://github.com/jenkinsci/localization-support-plugin[Localization Support Plugin] and
+https://github.com/jenkinsci/localization-zh-cn-plugin[Chinese Localization plugin] are able to support
+all types of localization resource files. From the https://plugins.jenkins.io/localization-zh-cn[plugins website],
+you can see that there are already 13 000 installations.
+We removed all Chinese localization files at the https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/4008[PR-4008].
+
+I really appreciate https://github.com/daniel-beck[Daniel Beck] for helping me to add localization support,
+https://github.com/bitwiseman[Liam Newman] helping me to review JEP-216, and many other community members.
+
+== Chinese Localization SIG
+
+We believe that this SIG could help to improve Jenkins experience for Chinese users and gather more contributors
+from China. This SIG is responsible for maintaining the https://jenkins.io/zh/[Chinese Jenkins website],
+promoting the Jenkins community in China in the social media with WeChat account. We publish translated blog
+articles, Jenkins release notes, JAM or other events at the WeChat account. For now, there are 1800 followers that can
+read our news from the last half a year.
+
+Especially, I want to say thanks to https://github.com/donhui[Wang Donghui], https://github.com/zacker330[Zhai Zhijun], and other https://github.com/jenkins-infra/wechat/graphs/contributors[contributors]. They did a lot of contributions.
+I wish I could see more and more folks join us.