266736 - "Firefox Hebrew Crew Picks" (bookmarks list) should be extended

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Localizations :: Other, enhancement)

Description

[Prognathous]

The current picks include two sites:

http://www.2find.co.il/?ty=news
http://he.wikipedia.org

I suggest to add following sites to the list:

Israeli
=======
http://www.whatsup.org.il
http://www.guides.co.il
http://www.techno.co.il
http://www.haayal.co.il
http://www.exego.net

Foreign
=======
http://www.gutenberg.org
http://www.imdb.com
http://babelfish.altavista.com

It might even be worthwhile to include some high profile Israeli sites such as:

http://www.haaretz.co.il
http://www.ynet.co.il
http://www.nrg.co.il
http://www.walla.co.il
http://www.tapuz.co.il/forums

Prog.

Comment 1

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Actually, I think that not only should it not be extended, but rather that the
existing entries should be remove. I wouldn't recommend most of the sites on
this list to anyone, for various reasons. If anything were to remain it should
be only the Mozilla project site, the Thunderbird page on the mozilla site,
mozilla.org.il, update.mozilla.org, mozdev.org, and that's basically it. Having
a set of initial bookmarks is sort of a pretense to educate users about where to
go on the net, and I usually find this annoying. Think of the useless favorites
MSIE comes with...

I know I can't really call myself part of the 'Hebrew Firefox crew', but those
are my 2 agorot.

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Israeli
> =======
> http://www.whatsup.org.il

No(!).

> http://www.guides.co.il

Why avg. user would want to read PHP/PSP/etc. guides?

> http://www.techno.co.il

over geeky

> http://www.haayal.co.il
> http://www.exego.net

agree.

> It might even be worthwhile to include some high profile Israeli sites such as:
> 
> http://www.ynet.co.il
> http://www.nrg.co.il
> http://www.tapuz.co.il/forums

Please don't add broken sites.


We may also want to add:
http://www.fresh.co.il/
http://www.nana.co.il/
http://www.fisheye.co.il/
http://www.idi.org.il/hebrew/seventheye/

Comment 3

[Tsahi Asher]

i thought we said "in the forum..."

i'm not sure about the foreign sites. what's so special about these sites for
the israeli user?

Comment 4

[Prognathous]

(In reply to comment #3)
> i thought we said "in the forum..."

I came to the conclusion that Bugzilla is better. The "crew" already hangs out
here (especially since everyone is CC'ed...) and it's better exposed to anyone
in the Foundation who might have a say on this.

Anyway, it should be Reuven's say at the end, we're just suggesting :-)

> i'm not sure about the foreign sites. what's so special about these sites for
> the israeli user?

gutenberg.org is an amazing source for free eBooks, imdb.com is, IMHO, the
biggest film site and babelfish.altavista.com is very, very useful (it sure
beats Tools -> Translate Page).

Prog.

Comment 5

[Reuven Gonen]

I found this post today on the newslist:

Benoit wrote:

> Since some people found a link to Amnesty to be offensive (!), the 
> Firefox Crew Picks were entirely taken out of the default bookmarks.
> (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266457)
> 
> Since the l10n policy asks us to follow strictly the same folder scheme 
> as the english version, it seems to mean that we should no more put any 
> recommended links there. Am I right?

we need to see what will be the policy for this. we may need to take out the
"Firefox Hebrew Crew Picks" folder entirely.

Comment 6

[Eyal Rozenberg]

I was sort of expecting this. I myself, for example, would take offense from
some of the links suggested on this page... better not to have any of them at all.

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Chinese ****.