1043559 - Make it easier to change links to the translated version of an article

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

What problems would this solve?
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It would allow translators to easily change links to English MDN pages to the versions in their language.

Who would use this?
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It would be useful for translators, which try to translate articles according to the English version.

What would users see?
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Links to the translated pages.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Is there anything else we should know?
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The current steps to do this manually are:
1. Open the link to the English version
2. Switch the linked article to the language you are translating
3. Copy the relative path from the URL of the localized page
4. Go back to the article you are currently translating and edit the link
5. Paste the URL path you copied and save the change

A way to implement this could be via the dialog for editing the links and/or via the context menu for a link.
I imagine an option like 'Change to translated version'.
E.g. a link to /en/CSS would automatically be changed to /<lang>/docs/Web/CSS (i.e. this includes resolving redirections).

If there is no translated version of a linked article yet, the form for editing the link should at least provide the relative path without the article name.
E.g. if the translated article for /en-US/docs/CSS/Value_definition_syntax doesn't exist yet, the dialog should suggest /<lang>/docs/CSS/ and show an info that there's no translation for the article yet.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

We have a goal this Quarter to define (not implement) how zones should work with l10n and not-yet-translated pages (zones and l10n are completely broken).

This behavior will be defined as part of this work. (It is not trivial as some locales translate URL, other not, so we have to deal with the different cases).

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.