932298 - Enable Hindi (hi) locale for MDN

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, enhancement)

Description

[Kaustav Das Modak [:kaustavdm]]

What problems would this solve?
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MDN articles can be translated to Hindi, which is one of the primary languages of India and is spoken by 180 million people.

Who would use this?
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Users speaking Hindi

What would users see?
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MDN articles translated to Hindi

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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MDN can be used by people speaking Hindi.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Meghraj Suthar (:romec)]

hello,

i would like to translate this Bug into Hindi Language. So where to start .

Comment 2

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

This is also related to bug 895006. Adding this as a blocker to 895006.

Comment 3

[Māris Fogels [:mars] (please needinfo)]

Fixed in https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/pull/2259

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Maris, the requested locale was hi not hi-IN why have you created hi-IN?

Comment 6

[Māris Fogels [:mars] (please needinfo)]

:groovecoder, please see comment 4

Comment 7

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

I copied the approach of https://www.mozilla.org/hi-IN/ and https://support.mozilla.org/hi-IN/home to match what they did with Verbatim: https://localize.mozilla.org/hi_IN/

Do we need to change it?

Comment 8

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

No, no, I was curious :-) That's a good reason, it solves several problem as other web sites often just copy the locale of their own page.

Note that in some case, it may be more critical (like if a language is spoken by two countries at war where contributors of one country may refuse to contribute on the language just because of the locale.

Comment 9

[Māris Fogels [:mars] (please needinfo)]

(In reply to Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli] from comment #8)
> No, no, I was curious :-) That's a good reason, it solves several problem as
> other web sites often just copy the locale of their own page.

Ah, I misunderstood then.  I thought we needed (hi) specifically, not (hi-IN).  Can we close this bug?

Comment 10

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

We were requested hindi translation, but we can do this with hi or with hi-IN. 
(And to be fair, I found good reasons to do hi-IN after my original question ;-) So you don't really misunderstood me)

Let's close this :-)

Comment 11

[Kaustav Das Modak [:kaustavdm]]

I had asked for hi based on the same convictions mentioned in comment 8. But hi-IN works just as well for now. Hope the localization team does a good work here.