Thread:MtaÄ/@comment-30093946-20170131085823/@comment-826221-20170206083332

Hello,

Similar to the reasons mentioned in the last reply regarding why creating a community central is not the best way to spend your energy right now, so is translating staff blogs - it's the wrong assumption that if you translate staff blogs you will attract users for said langauges. Staff blogs serve as communication channel to the language community, but that effort is paying off if the language community is already big enough, so the blogs will be read by a bigger audience. To underline this point, even blogs in already supported languages don't get nearly as much traffic as you might imagine (same for feedback/comments), so for smaller languages the percentage is even lower. I don't want to encourage you to spend time on things that demotivate you in mid-term.

Help pages have a similar fate, however, they are much more evergreen than staff blogs (like technical updates, which come out twice a week), and this is why it might be a good idea to create some of these pages on WLB, so you can point to them when working with other users in your language on wikis. To do so, go to Help:Kannada or Help:Hindi and add /Help:Index to the URL. From there, you can localize all help pages you find relevant into the respective language.

Please keep in mind that creating help pages beyond the absolute basic ones (basics of editing, sign up help page, create wiki help page) does not necessarily help attracting more people in your language to the community, which is why creating and working on wikis based on a topic is far more likely to lead to growing a stronger language community.

Focusing on creating more active wikis - which works best on topics you enjoy writing about - will be the most motivating factor in foreseeable future and helps contributing to growing the language to a point where localizing more help pages is a good option in time.

So tl;dr: You can translate them and put them anywhere (like en.c, or on a sandbox wiki), but it's not a good idea to do so at this state of traffic to HI/KN, since there is too little audience to read it.

Hope that helps!