Closed Bug 403020 (fx3-wsl10n-gu-IN) Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

[gu-IN] web services review

Categories

(Mozilla Localizations :: gu-IN / Gujarati, defect)

Product:
Mozilla Localizations
Component:
gu-IN / Gujarati
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: mic, Assigned: ankit)

References

Details

checking on list of web services
it appears you removed
amazon
creative commons
wikipedia

was there a reason or can those be added back in as the standard defaults we ship with?

please confirm the RSS feed: BBC

thanks
mic
The reason is: There is no Gujarati (Indic) quivalent url for these web services.
thanks, we have a new set of guidelines for replacing these defaults with better local choices. the guidelines are available: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_web_services_guidelines
i have done some research but need some help. can you take a review and offer any suggestions for gujarati?
Whiteboard: needs-mic
For Gujarati, there are only three searchplugins available which is Google, eBay, and Yahoo... And I think, it's better to provide the local searchplugins only to the end user. Because providing some bits in english would distract them & they will not like it. However most of Gujarati speaking people understand english, but still I would suggest not to use english bits at all.
Summary: web services review → [gu-IN] web services review
Blocks: fx3-l10n-gu-IN
ankit
my sincere apologies for taking so long to respond here.
first question, i noticed that bug was marked for PC platform only, was that intentional?
second - i understand your point about Gujarati only search - is there a Gujarait-English dictionary we might want to use as well? i did a minor search and found several including: http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/
what do you think?

we could leave as is for b4 and figure this out for RC1
Hardware: PC → All
Whiteboard: needs-mic → needs-gavin
also - can you indicate what you are using for livebookmark news feed and RSS Readers
for feed - I hope there is an interesting Feed in Gujarati language but don't know which ones?
for readers - not sure any providers localized to gujarait except maybe netvibes - any ideas?
The existing search plugins look good. Would be nice to confirm the eBay parameters, though:

<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://search.ebay.co.in/search/search.dll">
  <Param name="query" value="{searchTerms}"/>
  <Param name="MfcISAPICommand" value="GetResult"/>
  <Param name="ht" value="1"/>
  <Param name="ebaytag1" value="ebayreg"/>
  <Param name="srchdesc" value="n"/>
  <Param name="maxRecordsReturned" value="300"/>
  <Param name="maxRecordsPerPage" value="50"/>
  <Param name="SortProperty" value="MetaEndSort"/>
</Url>

They might not all be needed, and it might be good to add a Mozilla-specific parameter.
Whiteboard: needs-gavin
i will confirm with with eBay and write back in bug when i hear from them
Whiteboard: needs-mic
i heard from one contact in eBay who will double check tomorrow with contacts in eBay. in the mean time - fwiw - he has offered this, but i'm really not sure its that helpful/we should do anything different until I get the official word from eBay india:
"You can default the search to:
http://search.ebay.{TopLevelDomain}/{query}
That then outputs the standard result set (although I'll double check if
this is the best route tomorrow) "
(In reply to comment #8)
> "You can default the search to:
> http://search.ebay.{TopLevelDomain}/{query}
> That then outputs the standard result set (although I'll double check if
> this is the best route tomorrow) "

The "{query}" part is what we want more information about. What parameters are required? Should there be a Firefox-specific parameter?

(In reply to comment #4)
> ankit
> my sincere apologies for taking so long to respond here.
> first question, i noticed that bug was marked for PC platform only, was that
> intentional?
> second - i understand your point about Gujarati only search - is there a
> Gujarait-English dictionary we might want to use as well? i did a minor search
> and found several including: http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/
> what do you think?
> 
> we could leave as is for b4 and figure this out for RC1
> 

Yes, I am fine with http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/ , it's good resource.
awesome. i will get permission to include them and see if they are interested in building a plug in for Firefox. 
i have used their feedback form to ask for permission but i haven't heard from them yet. 

Ankit if you get a chance and can contact someone there and get me an email address that'd be great. 
http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/index.php?action=contact
ankit, any news on your side? i have not been successful yet on my side to contact gujaratilexicon
I will look into issue. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #14)
> I will look into issue. Thanks.
> 

Thanks Kartik!
This bug didn't mention protocol handlers yet, I guess we'll go for en-US defaults? If so, we still need to get yahoo mail landed for mailto: protocol.
Alias: fx3-wsl10n-gu-IN
sounds good to me. 

Ankit we can revisit mailto and webcal for release in 3.0.1 if you think of other local services that would be better
Whiteboard: needs-mic
permission from Gujaratilexicon, thanks everyone :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashok Karania" <
To: mic
Sent: Monday, April 7, 2008 6:27:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Gujaratilexicon.com As Search Engine

Dear Mic 

Hi! 

We would be more than pleased to allow Gujaratiexicon in Gujarati Version of Firefox. 

Please consider this as our approval. 

Regards 
Ashok Karania 
per bug 380785 we need to include wikipedia. can you please add a patch for this.
here is how to grab english version

Search is all (*) in browser/searchplugins. Task: Replace en.wikipedia.org with
gu.wikipedia.org. So, first, we need a plugin for the latter, for which a good
name will be wikipedia-gu.org. You should create this by following what we do
for en-US closely, that one is at
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/browser/locales/en-US/searchplugins/wikipedia.xml.
Use that as a template, and change the Urls accordingly, and use the link title
of the rel="search" link on your wikipedia site as ShortName. That matches what
the site sends, so Firefox will detect that it already has the search plugin.
So, now you have the plugin in gu/browser/searchplugins/wikipedia-gu.xml, and
to get it picked up, you replace the wikipedia with wikipedia-gu in list.txt.

To create the patch, do, in browser/searchplugins
cvs add wikipedia-gu.xml
cvs -z3 diff -uN

and attach the output here, and mark it as patch, there's a checkbox for that.
To request review on that, set the "Review" flag to '?', and the requestee to
my bugzilla ID.

(*) The search ordering stuff is in region.properties, too, but that's changed
rarely.

Done!
Ankit fixed list.txt, I fixed wikipedia-gu.xml to actually match what the site sends.
Marking FIXED, thanks.

Reference is http://hg.mozilla.org/users/axel_mozilla.com/l10n-src-verification/index.cgi/file/924dd9d75a03/reference/HEAD/gu-IN/.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
If we want to pick up Gujaratilexicon.com still, we should do that in a new bug.
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