703183 - Ask for languages spoken as part of the registration

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, defect)

Description

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

A very valuable thing to be able to find via mozillians.org would be language(s) spoken.

The reason I think it should be a proper field in the DB instead of tags are:
a) It's central to whether you can communicate with the person.
b) It should be able to be localized, in the cases where I don't know what Tagalog is called in English, but know what it is in Norwegian.

We're using tags right now, but they have multiple problems — you won't think to add them since we don't ask, they aren't localizable, trying to establish a "community standard" for how languages are listed is unlikely to work out, and should I list "Norwegian" or "Norsk" or "Norsk (Bokmål)" or…

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Hey Bram,

Can you take a look at this. It might fit well with the addition of "Languages" tags in the new Edit Profile UX we're doing.

Comment 2

[Bram Pitoyo [:bram]]

This is a good proposal. Languages additions can be done easily and across devices by using a dropdown menu.

We can try to be smart and autocomplete, or detect the user’s Firefox UI language and preselect that language upon registration, but this feature is best saved for the next version. We can focus on getting basic language selection that works across devices and will scale well.

The best practice is to call out a language by its local spelling and name, and then order it alphabetically. So:
* Français, not French
* русский, not Russian
* 日本, not Japanese
* 中文, not Chinese
* हिन्दी, not Hindi

And so on.

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Fixed by bug 785944.

Comment 4

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Verified in bug 78544.