freecodecamp/news-translation-tasks

freeCodeCamp's news-translation-tasks repository is a workspace where volunteers help translate the organization's articles and handbooks into different languages. It's essentially a project management system built on GitHub that coordinates crowd-sourced translation work, making free coding education accessible to people who don't read English. Volunteers can work in two ways. They can translate an article from scratch, or they can review and fix articles that have already been machine-translated by AI. In both cases, a human reviewer checks the work before it gets published. The workflow is organized around GitHub issues, which function like task cards. Volunteers claim an article by typing a slash command (like "/translate" or "/postedit") as a comment on the issue, and an automated system assigns it to them and tracks its status through the pipeline. The people who would use this are community volunteers who know a second language and want to contribute to free coding education. For example, someone fluent in both English and Mandarin could pick up an article about learning TypeScript, translate or refine it, and submit it for review by a language lead who ensures quality before publication. The system supports many languages, with language-specific project boards for organizing the work. What's notable is how much of the workflow is automated. Behind the scenes, JavaScript scripts listen for those slash commands, validate them, assign issues to the right people, and move task cards between status columns. This means volunteers don't need to manually coordinate with anyone, they just claim an article, do the work, and submit it. The README also includes helpful formatting tips for languages that use non-Latin scripts, like guidance on building table-of-contents links and adding image captions in the target language.