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Opened 5 weeks ago

#8431 new enhancement

Additional profile badges for other Polyglots team roles

Reported by: jdab Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Profiles Keywords:
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Description

I am proposing the creation of some additional profile badges for the Polyglots team.

Currently, the Polyglots profile badges consist of:

  1. Translation Contributor
  2. Translation Editor

There are however more ​roles within the Polyglots team, and it would be nice to recognise the additional effort that these individuals put in to co-ordinate the internationalisation of WordPress.

Right now, the highest level of badge is Translation Editor, and this is applied to users who may be a Project Translation Editor (i.e. one plugin/theme) in a single locale, or it may be a Global Mentor - there's no distinction.

In order of seniority, lowest to highest, the other roles are:

  1. ​Locale Manager: Responsible for an entire locale, recruiting editors, and Rosetta.
  2. ​Team Representative: To my knowledge, not a 'role' from a technical standpoint, so would need to be manually assigned.
  3. ​Global Mentor: Oversight on all locales. Administrator-esque.

Users within these roles typically include it in their WordPress.org profile (and Slack) bios, so it would make sense to me to automate that with a ​WordPress.org profile badge.

I've created a mockup of how the badges could look and attached it to this ticket.

I am however aware of the fact that most of the other teams only have two roles, typically Contributor and Team, so I would understand if this creates an imbalance that is not welcome.

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Screenshot 2026-09-11 at 18-50-03 Jamie Dąbrowiecki (@jdab) – WordPress user profile WordPress.org.png​ (14.8 KB ) - added by jdab 5 weeks ago.
Mockup of how the new profile badges could look.

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