{"id":14473,"date":"2016-03-18T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/?p=14473"},"modified":"2019-02-26T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:23:23","slug":"thimble-now-in-16-new-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/thimble-now-in-16-new-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Thimble: Now in 16 New Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re delighted to announce that Thimble, our open-source online code editor can now be used to teach the web in many more places around the world. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thimble.mozilla.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thimble<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is now available in 16 new languages (you may have already noticed a new option in the navigation bar).<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14474 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-7.png\" alt=\"Thimble Language Picker\" width=\"2874\" height=\"124\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After two months of development and many hours of localization effort from our volunteer translators Thimble is now available in &#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Czech, German, Lower and Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Spanish (Chile), French, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian and Simplified Chinese (China)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><b>Don\u2019t see your language in this list? Feel free to suggest it and help translate\u00a0by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/listinfo\/thimble\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to subscribe to our mailing list\u00a0and send us an email at <a href=\"mailto:thimble@mozilla.org\" target=\"_blank\">thimble@mozilla.org<\/a>.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This achievement would not be possible without <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pontoon.mozilla.org\/projects\/thimble\/contributors\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">our amazing translators<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who worked tirelessly to get Thimble up and running in their languages. We are grateful for their efforts, which will make Thimble useful to thousands of people who want to become creators, not just consumers, of the web.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s what Thimble looks like in French:<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14475 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-8.17.15-PM.png\" alt=\"Thimble in French\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1612\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h3><strong>What has changed?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The short answer is &#8211; A LOT! From the buttons that allow you to create a new project to the default name given to the new project, we aimed to make the experience as intuitive as possible for people using Thimble in any language. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even features in the editor have been translated. For instance, take a look at what adding a file from your computer into Thimble looks like in Russian:<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14476\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-8.03.12-PM.png\" alt=\"Thimble - Upload files through an interface localized in Russian\" width=\"1386\" height=\"934\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h3><b>What are we looking forward to next?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While translating Thimble is a big step, this is just the beginning. Lots of new language translations are still coming in and we are continuing to translate some of our other features in the editor. We also can\u2019t wait to localize our curriculum and starter projects so that we can share amazing remixes of culture-specific projects. <strong>Have an idea for a good learning project in your language that we can feature on our homepage?\u00a0We would love to hear from you\u00a0on our <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.webmaker.org\/t\/suggestions-for-projects-to-be-featured-on-the-thimble-homepage\/701\" target=\"_blank\">Discourse Forum for Thimble<\/a>!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re thrilled to see the different kinds of content people will make with Thimble, now that it\u2019s in more languages. If you\u2019d like to be involved, please get in touch!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re delighted to announce that Thimble, our open-source online code editor can now be used to teach the web in many more places around the world. Thimble is now available in 16 new languages (you may have already noticed a &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/thimble-now-in-16-new-languages\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[330394,410,7,199,23089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}