Category Archives: Localization

Localizing the Options window article

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Chris Ilias

As we fully embrace the concept of an entire knowledge base acting as the Firefox manual when you click on Firefox Help, there are some structural changes to the help documentation imported from CVS. By far, the biggest and most … Continue reading →

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Localize SUMO with Verbatim!

Posted on December 23, 2008 by David Tenser

Thanks to a tremendous effort by Wil Clouser, it is now possible to localize the SUMO (support.mozilla.com) site UI using Verbatim. For those unfamiliar with Verbatim, it’s an online translator tool for various Mozilla projects, including addons.mozilla.org. It’s designed to … Continue reading →

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Top 15 articles are now available in Japanese

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Chris Ilias

On October 1st, I announced the top 15 Knowledge Base articles for localizers to translate. One week later, all 15 articles were translated into Japanese! Big thanks to Masahiko Imanaka for looking after those article translations. We really appreciate the … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Base localizer survey

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Chris Ilias

Over the next few days, I’ll be sending out invitations to Firefox Support knowledge base localizers to take a survey. If you receive an invite, do not mistake it for spam. There are multiple goals in the survey, which should … Continue reading →

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Top 15 Support articles for localizers to translate

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Chris Ilias

Before Firefox 3 was released, we gave localizers a list of Support articles that needed to be translated because they were linked to from within Firefox. But what about after that? If someone wants to get started translating other articles … Continue reading →

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Please help us complete the support experience in your language

Posted on June 16, 2008 by David Tenser

After some serious work by the webdev and IT teams, SUMO is finally in a good enough shape to be linked to from Firefox 3! Thanks a lot to Laura, Jeremy, Justin, Mike Morgan, Mark Smith, Nelson, and Jason for … Continue reading →

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Attention Localizers: Start Pages Done!

Posted on May 23, 2008 by David Tenser

The SUMO start page and the Firefox 3 product help start page are both ready to be localized. The pages contain very little text, and we estimate this will take less than five minutes to localize. We’ve written instructions on … Continue reading →

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