965412 - Determine priorities for langs/locales we want to ship

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Localization, defect)

Description

[David Humphrey (:humph)]

We need to decide which languages/locales we want to focus on (i.e., go to market strategy for that locale).  Maybe lang/locale tiers?  What is the process for turning new langs/locales 'on' on  production. If one of our tools is 100% in lang XX, do we turn it on?

This ticket is about making decisions for the short/medium term about where to focus, which langs/locales we're missing or are incomplete, etc.

I'm not totally clear who all needs to be involved in such a discussion.  Brett, can you give me thoughts as to who should be in this bug?

Comment 1

[Cassie McDaniel [:cassiemc]]

Adding Adam – perhaps there are some quick metrics we can use to help us understand which languages/locales to look at next.

Perhaps add Paula too, for new markets?

Re. process for "turning on" a language – that feels like a separate bug on communication strategy with our users. Have filed as bug 965836.

Comment 2

[Adam Lofting (:adamlofting)]

Here's a quick look at data from GA showing the most popular browser Languages of people who visited webmaker.org and the tools in ~2013.

I've greyed out the main language we already have, so the remainder on this list gives you some data to consider. 

This would indicate existing appetite and perhaps quick wins for localization (rather than market potential which is another angle). 

But we could use this to target a few languages at a time. For example, how about displaying a message to logged in repeat visitors with a certain browser language, asking for help with that specific translation?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnUkMzboH_XAdDZtQnVNQUhuZDRGckR5dVFNU0lLS3c&usp=sharing

Comment 3

[David Humphrey (:humph)]

Paula, can you put the list you had from our meeting in work week in this bug so we have it documented?

Comment 4

[paula le dieu]

Sorry for the slow response.

Here are the areas we anticipate significant growth in the next 24 months:
 
- Western Europe
 * French, 
 * German, 
 * Italian, 
 * Spanish,
 * English, 
 * Welsh

- Nth America
 * English, 
 * Spanish

- Asia Pacific 
 * Chinese languages, 
 * Japanese, 
 * Taiwanese, 
 * Korean, 
 * Malaysian, 
 * Indonesian
 
- South America
 * Spanish, 
 * Portuguese

- Middle East
 * Arabic

Comment 5

[Chris DeCairos (:cade)]

Closing this bug as part of the deprecation of the Webmaker product on Bugzilla.