Mozilla Localization in 2024
A Year in Data 2024 was a year with plenty of achievements for the Mozilla localization community (here’s the 2023 report in case you missed it, or want to check … Read more
Articles in “Mozilla L10n team”
Engineering the Mozilla Way: My Internship Story
When I began my 16-month journey as a Software Engineer intern at Mozilla, I had no idea how enriching the experience would be. I had just finished my third-year as … Read more
A Deep Dive Into the Evolution of Pretranslation in Pontoon
Quite often, an imperfect translation is better than no translation. So why even publish untranslated content when high-quality machine translation systems are fast and affordable? Why not immediately machine-translate content … Read more
Advancing Mozilla’s mission through our work on localization standards
After the previous post highlighting what the Mozilla community and Localization Team achieved in 2023, it’s time to dive deeper on the work the team does in the area of … Read more
Mozilla Localization in 2023
A Year in Data The Mozilla localization community had a busy and productive 2023. Let’s look at some numbers that defined our year: 32 projects and 258 locales set up … Read more
Q3 2019 objectives for Mozilla localization
Every three months, the l10n-drivers dedicate a couple of weeks to review progress made on objectives from the past three months (or quarter) and plan new objectives for the next … Read more
Changing the Language of Firefox Directly From the Browser
Language Settings In Firefox there are two main user facing settings related to languages: Web content: when you visit a web page, the browser will communicate to the server which … Read more
A New Year with New Goals for Mozilla Localization
We had a really ambitious and busy year in 2018! Thanks to the help of the global localization community as well as a number of cross-functional Mozilla staff, we … Read more
L10n community events in 2018
From 2014-2017, the l10n-drivers assumed responsibility for organizing localization sprints, hackathons, and workshops. We went from hyper-local meetups to large-scale meetups (in Berlin’s workshop last year we had 50+ localizers … Read more
Localization Workshop in Kolkata (November 2017)
In case you’re wondering “Uhm, what year are we in again?”, don’t worry: it’s April 2018, and this is a long overdue post that I owe to our large community … Read more
Fluent in Gecko, new Pontoon UI, centralized terminology resources, and community workshops in 2018
In 2017, teams across Mozilla began using the OKR (Objective, Key Result) goal setting framework, including the l10n team. At the beginning of last year, we wrote a post about … Read more
Leadership shared agreements and localization
Cross-posted from Discourse. If you have comments, please join the discussion there. A few days ago the Open Innovation team wrote two posts about the general direction of Mission Driven … Read more