L10n:Web parts

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Localizing web-based parts of the Mozilla projects

This page outlines the work needed to localize the web presence of the Mozilla project.

Our web presence is split in two types of pages:

• Pages called directly from the products (Thunderbird start page, welcome pages for Firefox, release notes...)
• Pages part of the Mozilla Web Network (mozilla.com, mozilla-europe.org, mozilla-world.org, mozilla-japan.org, developer.mozilla.org...)

Pages called from the software like the start pages can be considered as being part of the products, these pages are called in-product pages.

Localization of the in-product pages

Firefox in-product pages

The Firefox in-product pages are a set of pages used to interact and give information to the end-user in his first steps with the browser or when a specific event (like an automatic upgrade) occurs.

We currently have the following pages hosted on mozilla.com which are to be translated for every new locale of Firefox:

• First-run page
• About Mozilla
• Get involved with Mozilla
• Getting started with Firefox
• Customize Firefox
• Help and Tutorials
• You have updated to the latest version of Firefox

Firefox Snippets on the start page

There are a few strings showed randomly on the Firefox start page, check this bug for their translation and attach your translation of these strings to the bug:

Update Google Snippets localizations on Firefox Start Page

Thunderbird in-product pages

Thunderbird currently has only one in-product page hosted on mozilla.com which is its start page displayed on Thunderbird launch in the main page :

• Thunderbird Start Page

How to provide a translation for the Firefox/Thunderbird in-product pages

Here is the process:

1. Choose one person in your localization team to be the "web l10n" contact
2. This person should contact Pascal Chevrel (pascal_DOT_chevrel_AT_mozilla-europe_DOT_org) and explain him what language you want to add, when you expect your localization to be released (at least as alpha), who does what in your localization team...
3. Download the firefox 2 in-product pages (bug 354498) and/or the Thunderbird 2 in-product page (bug 372450)
4. send an email to Pascal when the translation is done and attach your translation to the above bugs

Localization of the official websites

How to provide a translation for mozilla.com

The Mozilla Corporation is currently only in English (the in-product pages are an exception). In the future, the product pages on Mozilla Europe and Mozilla Japan will be moved to mozilla.com so as to provide a single website to describe and propose Firefox, Thunderbird and other Mozilla Corporation products.

So as to allow the localization of mozilla.com, a new CMS (inspired partly by Mozilla Europe's CMS) is being tailored. Until this CMS is created and fully functional, mozilla.com is not localizable.

If you are interested in helping us localize the site once the CMS is set, do not hesitate to contact us today, it will help us see which languages will need volunteers.

How to provide a translation for mozilla-europe.org

Mozilla Europe is an international affiliate to the Mozilla Foundation. If you are from Europe and want to help with the localization of the website or start a new section for you language if Mozilla Europe does not support it yet, please contact Pascal (pascal_DOT_chevrel_AT_mozilla-europe_DOT_org).

How to localize the addons site (addons.mozilla.org)

You will find below a separate page with the details on localizing the addons site (project code Remora) :

Steps to localizing AMO in a new language

What are the communication channels for web localizers

You can meet other localizers in the IRC channels #l10n (products and web localizers) and #europe (only for the Mozilla Europe portal) on the irc.mozilla.org server.

There is a newsgroup dedicated to web localization where annoncements are made and people can discuss localization issues. This newsgroup can be used via a nntp client like Thunderbird,a mailing list subscription or a web interface via Google Groups:

• news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.l10n.web (newsgroup)
• https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-l10n-web (mailing-list )
• http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.l10n.web/topics (web interface)