L10n:Web parts

	THIS PAGE IS A WORKING DRAFT
	The page may be difficult to navigate, and some information on its subject might be incomplete and/or evolving rapidly. If you have any questions or ideas, please add them as a new topic on the discussion page.

Localizing web-based parts of the Mozilla projects

This page outlines the work needed to localize the web presence of the Mozilla project.

Our web presence is split in two types of pages:

• Pages called directly from the products (Thunderbird start page, welcome pages for Firefox, release notes...)
• Pages part of the Mozilla Web Network (mozilla.com, mozilla-europe.org, mozilla-world.org, mozilla-japan.org, developer.mozilla.org...)

Pages called from the software like the start pages can be considered as being part of the products, these pages are called in-product pages.

Localization of the in-product pages

Firefox in-product pages

The Firefox in-product pages are a set of pages used to interact and give information to the end-user in his first steps with the browser or when a specific event (like an automatic upgrade) occurs.

We currently have the following pages hosted on mozilla.com which are to be translated for every new locale of Firefox:

• First-run page
• About Mozilla
• Get involved with Mozilla
• Getting started with Firefox
• Customize Firefox
• Help and Tutorials
• You have updated to the latest version of Firefox

Thunderbird in-product pages

Thunderbird currently has only one in-product page hosted on mozilla.com which is its start page displayed on Thunderbird launch in the main page :

• Thunderbird Start Page

How to provide a translation for the Firefox/Thunderbird in-product pages

Here is the process:

1. Choose one person in your localization team to be the "web l10n" contact
2. This person should contact Pascal Chevrel (pascal_DOT_chevrel_AT_mozilla-europe_DOT_org) and explain him what language you want to add, when you expect your localization to be released (at least as alpha), who does what in your localization team...
3. Download the firefox 2 in-product pages (bug 354498) and/or the Thunderbird 2 in-product page (bug 372450)
4. send an email to Pascal when the translation is done and attach your translation to the above bugs