SUMO Article Translation
Step-By-Step Guide
--- for zh-TW (Traditional Chinese) ---
Ernest Chiang, ReMo, MozTW Community
https://reps.mozilla.org /u/dwchiang/
Outline
- SUMO Introduction.
- SUMO (New) Website.
- SUMO KB Translation Step-by-step Guide.
- Register / Sign in.
- Translate an article (KB).
- Where to find articles to translate.
- Tips.
- SUMO's Support.
MozTW
MozTW is the Mozilla community in Taiwan.
We love and follow The Mozilla Manifesto.
MozTW starts promoting Free Culture, keeping Internet as a public resource, and plans to build better/open web since 2004.
http://moztw.org/about/
Ernest
- Ernest has 15y+ experience in planning, developing,
and implementing state of the art IT solutions facilitating client growth.
- He enjoy his works on cross-field project management
and web-based development professionally.
- He is currently working with a talent team to integrate
fitness and mobile solutions at PAFERS Tech.
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/dwchiang/
SUMO
SUMO stands for SUpport.MOzilla.com
(open source support).SUMO
- SUMO is the name of the Mozilla
community powered support project.
- SUMO community
supports
Mozilla products include Firefox,
Firefox Mobile, Thunderbird (ex), Firefox OS, etc.
by
articles (KB, Knowledge Base), forums,
mailing lists, twitters (Army of Awesome).
SUMO (NEW) Website
After the revision in 2010/Dec, SUMO team keeps moving on raising article quality and quantity, also providing much-easier editing functions for localization (l10n) and translation.
Here comes the new SUMO in 2012/Sep [1] which is really suitable for all translation contributors and mozillians.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2012/09/19/the-all-new-sumo/
Global Sumo Network
- HQ SUMO Team
- http://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings
- IRC: irc.mozilla.org #sumo
- MozTW SUMO Project
- http://moztw.org/contribute/sumo/
- IRC: irc.mozilla.org #mozilla-taiwan
- Mailing List: 摩茲將軍
https://groups.google.com/group/moztw-general
SUMO
Step-by-Step
Register / Sign in
https://support.mozilla.org/{locale}/home
https://support.mozilla.org/{locale}/users/auth
https://support.mozilla.org/{locale}/home
SUMO
Step-by-Step
Translate
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-make-firefox-and-websites-go-full-screen
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-make-firefox-and-websites-go-full-screen/locales
https://support.mozilla.org/zh-TW/kb/how-make-firefox-and-websites-go-full-screen/translate
https://support.mozilla.org/zh-TW/kb/how-make-firefox-and-websites-go-full-screen/translate
https://support.mozilla.org/zh-TW/kb/how-make-firefox-and-websites-go-full-screen/translate
SUMO
Step-by-Step
Where to find articles to translate?
KB Dashboard - https://support.mozilla.org/{locale}/localization
Which Articles Should I Start with?
- Find Knowledge Base Dashboard in your locale.
- "Most visited": High priority to translate.
- "Templates": High priority to translate.
- "Template Navigation"
- "All Knowledge Base articles"
- "Not-yet-translated"
Suggestion
- Find the topics that you are interested in.
- Find the topics that you happen into.
- Keep fun, have fun!
Useful hints
- Paragraph header: =...=
- HTML-style: <section> <img>
- IF or SPECIAL section: {tag}....{/tag}
- Article link: [[Article English Title]]
- Article link: [[Article English Title|Translated title]]
- Article link: [[KB URL (space) Translated title]]
- Template: [[Template:...]] or [[T:...]]
= ... =
Section header. Please translate "..."
<section> ... </section>
Section. No need to translate <>, need to translate "..."
{tag} ... {/tag}
Only show for specific OS or version.
No need to translate {tag}, translate "..."
[[Article English Title]]
Article link. No need to translate "Article English Title".
SUMO system will find it automatically.
[[Article English Title|Translated title]]
Article link. No need to translate "Article English Title".
Need to translate "Translated title".
[[KB URL (space) Translated title]]
Article link. No need to translate "KB URL".
Need to translate "Translated title".
SUMO
Step-by-Step
Templates
SUMO Templates
- [[Template:...]] or [[T:...]]
- Template is also one article type. You can translate.
- One template will be used in one or more articles.
- DO NOT translate template's URL.
- Find the template article you plan to translate,
and then go with the same process with normal article.
- Where to find all template articles?
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/localization/template-translations
- https://support.mozilla.org/{locale}/localization/template-translations
https://support.mozilla.org/zh-TW/localization/template-translations
SUMO
Step-by-Step
SUMO's Support
Contributor Forum - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors
SUMO
Step-by-Step
Enjoy your SUMO!
:-)