Improving i18n strings for WordCamp / WordPress event sites

[enrico-sorcinelli]

Components / Tools

WordCamp / WordPress event sites.

Description

I'm currently working setting up Rome Core Days WordPress event site.
This search (probably not comprehensive and/or with false positive) returns about 34 files containing "WordCamp" on wordcamp.org i18n strings. For example, the camptix field description "Do you have a serious allergy that could affect your experience at WordCamp?" IMHO might be a little bit misleading if I'm registering for an event that isn't strictly a WordCamp.
In the past I didn't paid to much attention to that since I had always worked on a WordCamp sites.

Stakeholders

• Attendees
• Event Organizers

How does this new feature contribute to the goals

Is this a feature that people need? I think so 🙂. I first discussed in meta-wordcamp a few days ago receveing some positive feedbacks.

Acceptance Criteria

Some suggestions/ideas:

• It could be used generically a string like "WordPress event" (or simlpy "event") as for example appears in other ticket field descriptions like "It will be the first time you participate in a WordPress event". I know, changing those i18n strings will break all related translations that would need to be updated. 🙂
• We can add a settings to mark a site as WordCamp or WordPress event and consequently use two different i18n strings (perhaps this setting might exist yet in the network admin dashboard of the WordCamps?).

Priority

Medium