560484 - [mai] The "Getting Started" page for Maithili

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Mozilla Localizations :: mai / Maithili, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

A new Firefox profile includes a link to the "Getting started" page on the Bookmarks toolbar. The objective of this page is to provide the users with a few task-based starting points. They could use them to enjoy the web and discover sites that will help them get the most out of Firefox, and the Internet in general. This page will be aimed towards beginning and intermediate Web users. We want to promote community/user oriented collaborative sites with good user experience in your region and language, and good standards support.

The current en-US defaults for this page are:
 The 'Work' category: Google Docs, Remember the Milk, LinkedIn, Clipmarks Add-on
 The 'Learn' category: Wikipedia, Topix, HowStuffWorks.com, Answers Add-on
 The 'Play' category: YouTube, Hype Machine, Miro, PicLens Add-on
 The 'Connect' category: Criagslist, Yelp, Facebook, Shareaholic Add-on 

(See the en-US page at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/central/.)

The respective work for Hindi was in bug 428174.

We would like to provide a good set of links on this page for our Maithili users.

First, the localization team and Stas (Stas Malolepszy) will look at the market for your language and come up with a good candidates. Rajesh, we'll need your input on this, of course. The guidelines for making recommendations are on <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox/Productization>.

Second, once we have a good list of candidates, your localization team will localize the 'Getting Started' index.html file which can be found here: http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.com/trunk/en-US/firefox/central/index.html?content-type=text%2Fplain&view=co changing the en-US default as agreed in the first step.

The logos should be named sites-<sitename>.png and should be 110px wide and 65px high on white or transparent background. Stas can help on getting the logos from the website owners.

The localized index.html and the logos should be then attached in a ZIP archive to this bug, and a review should be requested from Stas ([e-mail]) and Pascal ([e-mail]). Once the review have been granted, Pascal will take over to push the localized page on the server.

Thank you.

Comment 1

[Sangeeta Kumari]

Please update which page need to be translated for fx4 maithili.

Comment 2

[Sangeeta Kumari]

in firefox/central/index.html, there is one sentence:
"Don’t get bogged down worrying about your spelling— Firefox’s built-in spellchecker will do it for you."

Do you provide spell check for all languages? 

btw, I am submitting the translation for index html for Maithili.

Comment 3

[Sangeeta Kumari]

Attachment: for Maithili Getting Started

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Dictionaries in your language can be shipped, if you have a dictionary, and if it's compatibly licensed, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Dictionaries. Looking quickly, I found http://code.google.com/p/bhashaghar/, which seems to be GPLv3, which is not compatible. So we couldn't ship that. But you could package them up as an add-on and put them on AMO.

Comment 5

[Sangeeta Kumari]

thank you for quickly answering my queries! I asked that if we ship for any ab_CD locale then the sentence is fine but if ab_CD locale is not shipping dictionary and then the sentence is coming as translated text, the ab_CD locale user want to see spell checker working for the ab_CD. This sentence is true and useful for the user of a locale shipping inbuilt dictionary but if locale not shipping dictionary then it should not be present.

Comment 6

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

If you, or the original author, would repack the OOo dictionary as a fx add-on, you could link to that from the section, for example. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bundles has docs on how to bundle, you basically just need to extract the .aff and .dic files from the OOo one, possibly a readme, add a install.rdf and zip it :-) Not sure if http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/dictionary-packager/ is still helpful.

Comment 7

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

This page changed totally, and now it looks more like: http://www-dev.allizom.org/de/firefox/central/ , a what used to be Features page. 

So, this isn't a blocking bug anymore, but it would certainly be nice to have it done.

Comment 8

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Clearing old untargeted review request and closing, per comment 7. If this is still a valid issue, please reopen (or file a new bug) with an updated patch. Thanks!

Comment 9

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

This is still open, so reopening.

Comment 10

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

This page is long gone, and we don't serve it any more. There's a new page though, that's rather big - features page. As it can be hard to maintain this page, we don't ask all our localization teams to deal with it, but only those who have the manpower for that.

That said, I'm resolving WORKSFORME this bug, and if you want to translate the Features page, even though you're not required to, please let me know and I'll open a new bug for you.

Thanks!