1415891 - [wo] Search engine setup for Firefox for Wolof

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: wo / Wolof, enhancement)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

We want to ship Firefox with a good list of search engines for Wolof. 

We'll do this in three phases: First, the localization team and flod (Francesco Lodolo) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good set of search providers. Wolof Team, we'll need your input on this. The guidelines for making recommendations are found on <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox/Productization>. 

We currently use this set for en-US, to which we can fall back in the case of lacking localized alternatives:
Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, Twitter, Wikipedia, eBay

Adding brand new search engines, that not yet ship in any other language, needs approval from Business Development and requires more time to get authorization and assets from the provider. To avoid blocking the initial set up, this type of requests should be split into follow up bugs. Wolof Team, we'll likely need your help to at least get the owner's contact information.

Once we have a specification on what the search engines for Wolof should look like, flod and the localization team will work on an implementation on that. flod will create and attach patches for the desired changes and get them reviewed. After a successful review, flod will land them. Wolof Team, if you're interested, you could create the patches, too. You'd ask flod for review on those before landing.

Please don't commit any modifications in browser/searchplugins to the hg repository without a patch reviewed by flod, Stas, Axel or someone else appointed by flod. The data here is sensitive to users and our search partners, thus requiring extra care here.

The Wolof team and flod will be driving this bug to completion.

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #0)
> Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, Twitter, Wikipedia, eBay

Ibrahima, any advice? We can drop Twitter if needed, and we'll use the localized version of Wikipedia in Wolof. 

We also need to figure out if it makes sense, for example, to use Yahoo France (same for Amazon and eBay).

Comment 2

[ibrahima fall]

Hi Francesco,
I fink it's better to put the french version if the wolof language is not available.
Ibra

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

wikipedia-wo.xml is already available in mozilla-central, region.properties is already up to date.

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Attachment: Bug 1415891 - [wo] Search engine setup for Firefox for Wolof

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/206246/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/206246/

Comment 5

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Comment on attachment 8935354 [details]
Bug 1415891 - [wo] Search engine setup for Firefox for Wolof

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/206246/#review211968

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

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[wo] Search engine setup for Firefox for Wolof r=delphine

Comment 7

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/041b8c122467