480012 - Investigate effect of l10n fallback on article comments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 428795

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Software, task)

Description

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I sometimes get article comments that are in a different language than the article name on the notification. Last week, I got a strange one:

<quote>
An anonymous user commented on the page 'For Internet Explorer Users':
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You should update information on this site, for example about Tab browsing - here it is said that it is not available in Internet Explorer, when it IS.

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You can view the comment at 
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/For%20Internet%20Explorer%20Users#comments
</quote>

The part about tabbed browsing was removed last April. When I look at the article, the comment is from "Anonimowy".

I don't know the exact circumstances to reproduce the problem yet, but I just wanted to file the bug to get some investigation on this.

Comment 1

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

Anonimowy is Polish, and the pl version is not updated to reflect the changes in en-US, showfor is still used and the features section is still intact.

While the en-US version never said that the features listed were not available in IE the pl version actually does. See the first paragraph of  http://support.mozilla.com/pl/kb/Informacje%20dla%20u%C5%BCytkownik%C3%B3w%20Internet%20Explorera#Dodatkowe_mo_liwo_ci_przegl_darki_Firefox

Comment 2

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

Resolving WFM, 

not sure if someone should start a discussion somewhere else about making sure translations follow the english version closely enough. I assume this is just missing the "out of date" warning from when it was imported from the help, but I wouldn't know.

Comment 3

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

If someone comments on a translation of "For Internet Explorer Users", and it is applied to the actual "For Internet Explorer Users" article, that's a bug. People monitoring the pl version should get that comment.

Maybe the user went to something like <http://support.mozilla.com/pl/kb/For+Internet+Explorer+users>, and the comment got applied based on the URL, not the article displayed. Gotta do some testing on staging...