Document weblate in translations chapter

[hturner]

If we get more experience with weblate in the next month or two, it could be worth adding to the guide. This may be too late for GSoD2022 but adding here in case we have time.

[hturner]

Documentation on getting started with weblate would be useful for translation hackathons (r-devel/rcwg#36) and others that have recently volunteered to help.

There are a couple of ways to proceed:

1. Create a basic HOWTO somewhere else and link it on this issue to later be incorporated in the guide.
2. Add a new section to the in-progress translations chapter: https://github.com/r-devel/rdevguide/pull/63/files and we merge it in time for them to direct participants to.

Either 1 or 2 could be done by one or more groups:

• the LatinR translation hackathon organizers (@clente, @beatrizmilz, Ángela Sanzo, etc)
• @SaranjeetKaur as part of GSoD
• others involved in translation that have used weblate already, e.g. @daroczig, @MichaelChirico

This depends who has time and willingness to make a start. If you want to volunteer please comment here so others know you're working on it and let people know how you plan to do it so others can read the documentation and provide feedback.

[Athene-ai]

I would like to volunteer

[llrs]

Ángela's github username is @angelasanzo 😉

[daroczig]

Unfortunately, I don't think I will be able to contribute a lot on how to use Weblate, but open to documenting the environment, how to set up and maintain (e.g. exporting PO files for R Core), adding other admins etc.

[shun2wang]

Hello everyone, I'm Shun Wang, I've been using Weblate and Poedit to contribute translations to several projects, have we ready to use the Weblate to host translations?

[MichaelChirico]

@shun2wang here is the weblate that Gergely has set up: https://translate.rx.studio/engage/r-project/

[SaranjeetKaur]

Include the translations blog link in the weblate chapter/section: https://blog.r-project.org/2022/07/25/r-can-use-your-help-translating-r-messages/index.html

Link is from the developer blog:
Was: https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/ (still works but doesn't redirect)
Now: https://blog.r-project.org/

[hturner]

The presentation from the LatinR Hackathon may be useful for this:

• slides
• video

[beatrizmilz]

The presentation from the LatinR Hackathon may be useful for this:

* [slides](https://github.com/beatrizmilz/blog-en/blob/main/talks/es/2022-latinr-translaton/slides_translaton.pdf)

* [video](https://youtu.be/5LURMdf1Uk8)

Hi Heather!!

The presentation is also available on Google Slides, is easier to copy/paste/make changes:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ej5p57CUY0hYapQLvDA3ehB468OQbszOiLa3iKMQLD4/edit?usp=sharing

I'm unsure at which point this activity is and where I could help!

[hturner]

Thanks @beatrizmilz. We are just reviewing our TODO list: @SaranjeetKaur plans to work on the Documentation chapter first, then move on to this issue. So no activity just yet, but we may come back to you in a few week's time!

[SaranjeetKaur]

@hturner - Can this be closed now as Binod (PR#142)has worked on it?