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Helping with translations#

Careers@GFTV is published in English and 华文, and both are meant to read as though they were written in that language. Nobody at GFTV necessarily reads both well enough to catch a bad translation before a reader does.

So readers are the correction loop. This section is how to take part.

This section is public on purpose. The person best placed to fix the Chinese speaks Chinese, and has no reason at all to be a GFTV staff member.

Two ways in, and one needs nothing at all#

  • Report a problem. Any account can do it, from the foot of any posting. No role, no training, and no need to offer a replacement. See Reporting a problem.
  • Become a translation helper. A standing role, granted one language at a time, that lets you write and improve that language across the whole site. See Becoming a helper.

What needs translating#

  • Postings. The title, the summary, the description, what you would do, what we need from you, nice to have, and the location.
  • Teams and tags, which are the names on the filters.
  • The interface itself, which is every label, button and message on the site.

A posting with no translation is still published. It appears with an English only notice on it. Hiding a real opening from the people a translation exists to serve would be the worse failure.

What is never translated#

Tag and department slugs. A slug is the short identifier in an address, like camera or post-production. It is what a filter matches on and what a shared link carries.

Translating one would break every link anybody had already shared. So slugs stay as they are, and the name beside the slug is what gets translated.

English search understands words and ranks by how well they match. Chinese search matches the characters you type, because the database cannot split Chinese into words.

Both work. Only English ranks well. This is worth knowing before you conclude that Chinese search is broken.

What is in this section#

  1. Reporting a problem, which needs no role.
  2. Becoming a helper, and what the role is.
  3. What a helper can do.
  4. What a helper cannot do, and why that is not distrust.
  5. Suggesting a correction in place, without leaving the page.
  6. Singapore Mandarin, with the words that matter most.
  7. What happens next, from the other side of the queue.