1521551 - Updating locale list and redirects for support.mozilla.org to match versions available via https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

Status: NEW

(support.mozilla.org :: Localization, task, P5)

Description

[vesper]

As a continuation of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1223889, in order to allow contributing localizers to match support content for Firefox available to users (as per https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/), the list of locales at support.mozilla.org's Knowledge Base as open for community contributions will be expanded to include all the following locales:

Arabic - ar
Chinese (Simplified) - zh-CN
Chinese (Traditional) - zh-TW
Czech - cs
Danish - da
Dutch - nl
English (US) - en-US
French - fr
German - de
Greek - el
Hindi (India) - hi-IN
Hungarian - hu
Indonesian - id
Italian - it
Japanese - ja
Javanese - jv
Korean - ko
Polish - pl
Portuguese (Brazilian) - pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal) - pt-PT
Russian - ru
Spanish (Spain) - es
Sundanese - su
Acholi - ach
Afrikaans - af
Albanian - sq
Aragonese - an
Armenian - hy-AM
Assamese - as
Asturian - ast
Azerbaijani - az
Basque - eu
Belarusian - be
Bengali (Bangladesh) - bn-BD
Bengali (India) - bn-IN
Bosnian - bs
Breton - br
Bulgarian - bg
Burmese - my
Catalan - ca
Corsican - co
Croatian - hr
English (British) - en-GB (redirect to 'en-US')
English (Canadian) - en-CA (redirect to 'en-US')
English (South African) - en-ZA (redirect to 'en-US')
Esperanto - eo
Estonian - et
Finnish - fi
Frisian - fy-NL
Fulah - ff
Gaelic (Scotland) - gd
Galician - gl
Georgian - ka
Guarani - gn
Gujarati (India) - gu-IN
Hebrew - he
Icelandic - is
Interlingua - ia
Irish - ga-IE
Kabyle - kab
Kannada - kn
Kaqchikel - cak
Kazakh - kk
Khmer - km
Latvian - lv
Ligurian - lij
Lithuanian - lt
Lower Sorbian - dsb
Macedonian - mk
Maithili - mai
Malay - ms
Malayalam - ml
Marathi - mr
Nepali - ne-NP
Norwegian (Bokmål) - no
Norwegian (Nynorsk) - no (redirect to 'no')
Occitan (Lengadocian) - oc
Odia - or
Persian - fa
Punjabi (India) - pa-IN
Romanian - ro
Romansh - rm
Serbian - sr
Sinhala - si
Slovak - sk
Slovenian - sl
Songhay - son
Spanish (Argentina) es-AR (redirect to 'es')
Spanish (Chile) - es-CL (redirect to 'es')
Spanish (Mexico) - es-MX (redirect to 'es')
Swedish - sv
Tamil - ta
Telugu - te
Thai - th
Turkish - tr
Ukrainian - uk
Upper Sorbian - hsb
Urdu - ur
Uzbek - uz
Vietnamese - vi
Welsh - cy
Xhosa - xh

Additionally, the fallback locales (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800880) will be updated to include the following conditional redirects to locales other than English:

an -> es
ast -> es
be -> ru
br -> fr
cak -> es
oc -> fr

Comment 1

[vesper]

As per Patriccollu's request (a Corsican community translator), expanding the fallback locales to include:

co -> fr

Comment 2

[vesper]

As per Safwan's request, this is a more detailed listing of the requested changes. Safwan, please let me know if you need more information. Thank you!

1. Language list fixes

1.1 Changing locale code 'br-FR' to 'br'

2. Language list additions

2.1 Adding and enabling locales - both codes and names:

(code) - (English name) - (native name)

an - Aragonese - aragonés
cak - Kaqchikel - Kaqchikel Ch'ab'äl
co - Corsican - corsu
ia - Interlingua - Interlingua
kab - Kabyle - Taqbaylit
lij - Ligurian - ligure
uz - Uzbek - oʻzbek tili

2.2 Enabling already defined locales by adding their codes:

ach
as
ast
be
br
cy
dsb
eo
gd
hy-AM
is
jv
kk
lv
mai
mr
my
oc
or
pa-IN
rm
son
su

3. Locale list removals

3.1 Removing locales:

bm
ee
ig
ln
sw
ta-LK
tn
wo
yo
zu

4. Locale fallback / redirects

4.1 Locale fallback:

an -> es
ast -> es
be -> ru
br -> fr
cak -> es
co -> fr
fy-NL -> nl
oc -> fr

4.2 Locale redirects:

en-CA -> en-US
en-GB -> en-US
en-ZA -> en-US
es-AR -> es
es-CL -> es
es-MX -> es

5. Other changes:

5.1 Disabling the Firefox OS content addition warning

5.2 Disabling the Wiki/FAQ page redirect

Comment 3

[Reşat SABIQ (Reshat)]

(In reply to vesper from comment #2)

4. Locale fallback / redirects

4.1 Locale fallback:

an -> es
ast -> es
be -> ru
br -> fr
cak -> es
co -> fr
fy-NL -> nl
oc -> fr

4.2 Locale redirects:

en-CA -> en-US
en-GB -> en-US
en-ZA -> en-US
es-AR -> es
es-CL -> es
es-MX -> es

I'd like to kindly request addition of the following fallback or redirect as well to address bug 1523590:
crh -> tr

P.S. When trying oc & es-MX just now for a couple of URLs, i haven't noticed a difference in behavior between fallback & redirect. W/o much pondering over, it seems fallback would be slightly better (because
a. it seems to imply a possibility to have a page in crh locale in the long run;
b. it seems to suggest that an HTTP Redirect response (like 301) would be skipped
), but feel free to make a call on one or the other (since you are more familiar with what's going on behind the scene).
P.P.S. My personal opinion would be that
kk -> tr
&
uz -> tr
fallbacks would also make more sense than de-facto en-US fallbacks currently in effect, but please consult those respective teams/maintainers for answer to that point.

Comment 4

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

Note from Flod in Bug 1523590

"There are locales that will never complete SUMO localization. We should fall back to the first language available in their Acccept-Language (e.g. tr for crh), that's a better experience than a 404."

We should probably implement that behavior by default to avoid anyone to have a 404.

Comment 5

[madalina]

We need to validate whether this is something we still want to do, marking it as P5 for now.