How to contribute to article localization
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- Creator: huoraperkeele
- Comment: jyrkivaisa
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Before you translate:
- Make sure you have registered an account on the Firefox Support website. If you haven't, please register.
- In your account preferences, set
- Group: as Contributor.
- Language: to your preferred language
- Go to the article you would like to translate. Here is a list of articles.
- For the localization progress of your locale, see the Localization Dashboard
- If the article has not been translated into your language, there should be a message above the article title, stating that the article has not been translated to your language, and provide a "translate this page" link, for you to create a translation of the article. Click on the "translate this page" link.
- You will then be asked to provide a title for the translated article. Enter the translated title, and click
.
- NOTE: Out of the entire knowledge base, among all languages, no 2 articles can have the same name.
- The title your article should be a translation of the title of the article you want to translate. Do not use generic titles, like "Firefox".
- You can now start translating the article.
- If there are screenshots, you can replace them with your own screenshots.
- When you've completed the translation, click on
. - Your article will not be public until someone with approver permissions can approve your article, thus making it public. For more information, see Approving articles and edits.
Localizer documentation
Once you've translated an article, check out the full documentation for all the resources we have available for localizers.
- Translate an article
- Getting notified of new article translations
- How to remove the Content may be out of date warning
- Monitoring categories: Get email notifications whenever someone changes an article in the English KB or in your language.
- (Approvers) Translating content blocks
- (Locale leaders) Translating the interface
- (locale leaders) Updating to the new start page
For more information on localizing Firefox Support, see Localizing Firefox Support