Re: Calling Experienced Localizers - Support the Add-ons Localization Campaign!

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Ruben Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear localizers,
>
> During the last weeks of June the Add-ons team together with the Open
> Innovation team plan to run an experimental campaign to help localize the
> top Firefox Desktop Add-ons into the top 11 languages (languages with the
> most users).
>
> This is a very exciting moment where we would like to find out whether
> having add-ons localized drives more user installs. The great thing is that
> recent research demonstrated that users who install add-ons are way more
> engaged with the browser, so we can potentially unlock huge value for
> Firefox through this Campaign!
>
> We are asking for experienced localizers from the following locales: de,
> fr, es_ES, ru, pt_BR, zh_CN, pl, it, es_MX, ja and nl who will be available
> in  first week of July, to please sign-up here:
>
> https://goo.gl/forms/uUmad50ggt58l3lO2
>
> The workload would be less than 1000 strings.
>
> Since Pontoon currently can’t handle add-on localization files, we will be
> using a similar external tool and testing an experimental workflow:
>
> - Any mozillian will be able to suggest new translations (we want to give
> space to new people)
> - Anyone will be able to upvote and downvote suggestions (we want to get
> more people involved in the quality control)
> - We want to rely on you, trusted localizers, to check the reviewed
> strings and approve them.
> - Once the add on is localized, we’ll be asking mozillians to test the
> add-ons in their language before they launch.
>
> After localization is complete, we will promote these add-ons in their
> corresponding locales.
>
> If this experimental campaign is successful (whether it can drive new
> installs), not only will we provide huge value to Firefox Desktop, but we
> will also be able to make the case for providing a wider and more sustained
> support of localization to Firefox add-ons.
>
> Isn’t it exciting? :-D
>
> If you’re an experienced localizer whose willing to help please sign-up
> here:
>
> https://goo.gl/forms/uUmad50ggt58l3lO2
>
> Cheers.
>

Hi Ruben,

When I go to the sign-up form it looks like you're searching for people to
review the translations, instead of people doing the translations. Am I
reading that right or did I miss something? Is the top n of add-ons already
localized and do you need verification?

Also, if you want more add-ons to be localized, I think it would be a great
step to allow add-on authors to add their add-on to Pontoon somehow, so
localizers can translate the add-on there. Now they have to use another
platform, like BabelZilla, CrowdIn or Transvision, where it is much harder
to find localizers and localizers that are used to Pontoon may find it
easier to localize everything in one place. It would maybe even become
possible to download localizations for installed add-ons from a Mozilla
server whenever a user changes locale, so add-on authors don't need to
package all the locales and locales get updated quicker, without the need
to repackage the add-on and release a new version.

And one last thing. I do have a Pontoon account, but I do all my
localizations for Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird via Mercurial. I
haven't found a way to see the URL of my Pontoon contributor's profile.

Onno
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