999094 - Review country names in the Stats page dropdown box

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: glow.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Ali Almossawi]

Could you kindly advise whether the country names in the dropdown are politically correct or whether they may need to be modified, e.g. Falkland Islands, for instance?

https://github.com/mozilla/mrburns/blob/master/mrburns/main/templates/stats.html
https://webwewant.allizom.org/en/

Thank you.

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Not sure I can help much, CCing l10n community for advice.

What about using some standard source to avoid complaints?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

That means:
* Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
* Taiwan, Province of China
* Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
* Palestine, State of

CCing Peter for Taiwan, Goce for Macedonia, maybe they can give us a bit more info.
CCing also Pascal, who's been around more than me and probably has already experience on this.

Comment 2

[Peter Pin-Guang Chen [:petercpg] (MozTW.org)]

Please keep Taiwan simply as "Taiwan", thanks.

Comment 3

[Goce Mitevski]

Thanks Francesco.

Please keep Macedonia as simply "Macedonia". People here are very sensitive to the the provisional reference used by the United Nations.

Thank you.

Comment 4

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Could we use the word 'region' in lieu of 'country' just to be a little bit more agnostic here?

Comment 5

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

We're already using "region" in the main screen, but in this context I think it would be more confusing, since we're actually talking about nations.

Comment 6

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

I also see a pending pull request about Country names
https://github.com/mozilla/mrburns/pull/100

Comment 7

[Ali Almossawi]

Yes, that PR will likely address the concern raised herein. I will keep you posted. Thank you for the feedback.

Comment 8

[Ali Almossawi]

pmac, given the way the country dropdown is now populated, are we able to make the changes mentioned herein to a subset of country names? I'm also wondering whether it would be possible to change the country names that begin with "Saint" to "St" so that they take up less space on the third chart?

Comment 9

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

The country list we now use is from Firefox source. It's about as close to the "Official Mozilla List" as we can get. We can do some mods on the fly if we need to, but the things you're suggesting would only help english, and this list is translated into all of our supported languages, and some names are likely much longer than their english versions. So I think we need a good solution to long strings instead of just shortening the english ones.

Comment 10

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Given pmacs last comment can we close out this bug?

Comment 11

[Ali Almossawi]

I've no objections.