Localization Tips and Product Updates

Ivan Pugin is Localization Team Lead at Wrike, developers of project management software with a mission to help companies to be as productive as they can. At Wrike, Ivan and his colleagues have set up localization processes from scratch, seen the company’s growth from a start-up to a global player, and its acquisition by Citrix in early 2021. In this blog, Ivan talks about setting localization up from scratch, his passion for automation, Wrike’s localization metrics, and the next steps for his small but perfectly formed team.

import { Icon } from "astro-icon/components"; Get the best out of Crowdin and localize your product smarter with features available on the project settings, online editor, and resources tab. Different teams may apply the same feature differently – they just need to experiment a bit to figure out what works best for each. That's why we would like to round up some Crowdin features you might not know about to help your localization team enjoy our tool to the fullest.

Let's review the last month of the summer for the updates and new features that will help you automate localization with Crowdin. In August, we updated our project view, released new versions of Sketch and VS Code plugins, added new support options and the FTL format. Keep reading to find out more about the recent updates.

Translation memory allows you to use existing translations from previously translated content, rather than retranslating the same segments. This technology allows the human translator to focus on non-localized strings. Save time and allocate your budget to translate unique and important content. Keep reading to learn how you can manage your TMs and get even more benefits from them.

Help centers are a significant way to educate people about your product and communicate with them. Localizing your articles to clients’ native language is essential for this, as this way you can reach more people and build stronger relationships. Read on to find out how and what kind of content from your help center you can localize with our new Intercom app.

Each month, we’re introducing a range of new features we’re adding to Crowdin. In July, we released an app that helps you integrate Crowdin with the WPML (WordPress Multilingual) plugin, added exact search in TM, a new API Console app, and a possibility to change the source language of your project right from the project page. And the list goes on, so keep reading to find out more.

Konstantin Dranch is a language industry researcher and the co-founder of Custom.MT, a start-up company customizing, training, and implementing machine translation for localization teams and LSPs. In this blog, we catch up with Konstantin to talk about the first AI and machine learning generation, implementing MT, and how localization managers are bringing AI to the language services industry.