[Fx4 Special, Mobile] Spark, the social game, 475 strings -- Opt in here

[Staś Małolepszy]

Hello all,

Me again :) Alright, this is the last one for today and probably for
a few more days too. Thanks for bearing with me =^^=.

Let's switch the context and talk about mobile. I hereby present to
you Firefox Spark, a social game designed around sharing the link to
a Firefox for Mobile download. The machanics are rather simple: by
clicking your link, your friends will make your Spark grow, which in
turn will unlock badges (achievements!) and will make you level up.
There's also a global visualization of the shares between cities in the
world.

It's actually pretty neat and I personally love the design of the site,
too. Please have a sneak peek here:

http://l10n.mozilla.org/~stas/fx4special/spark1.png

This project is bigger than the ones I posted about earlier
today/yesterday. It's 475 strings in the messages.po file (3,300
words) and then another file, geo.po, with names of the countries and
cities. I'll try to see if we don't have the geo names translations
somewhere already. For now, please focus mostly on messages.po which
is frozen and will not change any more (geo.po might still change).

The project is now on Verbatim:

https://localize.mozilla.org/projects/spark/ [1]

and in SVN:

https://svn.mozilla.org/projects/l10n-misc/trunk/spark/

Opt in
======

Please opt in in this thread and we will set you up with all that you
need to localize Spark.

The due date for the localizations is Monday, March 21st. That's 2.5
weeks from now.

You might also be interested in knowing that the game will go on for
about 6 weeks, so even if you don't make it for the initial launch, it
might still make sense to add you locale for the remaining 5 or
4 weeks. Please talk to us and we will figure out the best strategy.

I will post more details when a staging site is set up.

For now, if you have any questions or comments, please reply in this
thread or ask in #l10n. I should be able to respond to most questions
about the mechanics, so if you're interested, let me know :)

Take care,
-stas

[1] As before, I used Polish for testing.
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Staś Małolepszy
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[Staś Małolepszy]

Just to provide some help with the translations, let me give some
guidelines:

- It's OK to localize the name of the campaign/game. If you want to,
you can translate 'spark' to your language. Or, you can leave in in
English.

- You will notice that sometimes the word 'spark' is capitalized as
'Spark', and sometimes it's written all in lowercase. The difference
is the owner. If it's possessive, e.g. 'your Spark' or
'{{username}}'s Spark', in English it's spelled with a capital 'S'.
If it's simply 'a spark,' it's all lowercase.

- Please focus on messages.po for now.

Let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks,
-stas

[Patipat Susumpow]

Thai (th) opts-in

2011/3/5 Staś Małolepszy <st...@mozilla.com>

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[Peter Pin-Guang Chen]

Again, zh-TW opts-in. :P

~Peter

2011/3/5 Patipat Susumpow <ken...@gmail.com>

[Jeff Balogh]

2011/3/4 Staś Małolepszy <st...@mozilla.com>:

> Hello all,
>
> Me again :)  Alright, this is the last one for today and probably for
> a few more days too.  Thanks for bearing with me =^^=.
>
> Let's switch the context and talk about mobile.  I hereby present to
> you Firefox Spark, a social game designed around sharing the link to
> a Firefox for Mobile download.  The machanics are rather simple: by
> clicking your link, your friends will make your Spark grow, which in
> turn will unlock badges (achievements!) and will make you level up.
> There's also a global visualization of the shares between cities in the
> world.

I'm pulling countries from
http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details/json/regions/, for
example: http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details/json/regions/en-US.json

[Staś Małolepszy]

Peter Pin-Guang Chen, Sat Mar 05 07:05:22 +0100 2011:
> Again, zh-TW opts-in. :P

...and done here as well :) Thanks, Peter!

-stas

[Besnik Bleta]

Opting in for Albanian (sq) locale

cheers
Besnik

Më 03/05/2011 07:43 AM, Staś Małolepszy shkrojti:

> Hello all,
>
> Me again :) Alright, this is the last one for today and probably for
> a few more days too. Thanks for bearing with me =^^=.
>
> Let's switch the context and talk about mobile. I hereby present to
> you Firefox Spark, a social game designed around sharing the link to
> a Firefox for Mobile download. The machanics are rather simple: by
> clicking your link, your friends will make your Spark grow, which in
> turn will unlock badges (achievements!) and will make you level up.
> There's also a global visualization of the shares between cities in the
> world.
>

[Benoit]

Opting-in for French (fr)

Thanks!

[Michael 'Coce' Köhler]

Hi Staś,

please prepare the files for German (de).

Regards

Michael

[Staś Małolepszy]

Michael 'Coce' Köhler, Sat Mar 05 12:01:23 +0100 2011:

> Hi Staś,
>
> please prepare the files for German (de).

Added.

[Staś Małolepszy]

Benoit, Sat Mar 05 10:31:24 +0100 2011:
> Opting-in for French (fr)

Added!

[Staś Małolepszy]

Besnik Bleta, Sat Mar 05 09:11:23 +0100 2011:

> Opting in for Albanian (sq) locale

Done.

[kkemenczy]

Please add Hungarian (hu) as well.
thanks
kalman

[smo]

> Opt in
> ======

for Slovenian!

Regards

smo

[smo]

By the way here's my 2c of spam:

why not set up the opt-in and opt-out/subscriber groups? By now it's
clear for instance that sl and me will come and dance on every party
Staš may decide to invite us to. And theres some more "usual
suspects", like it, fr, de, cn-TW, sq, he ... You may even make it
into something like Tom Sawyer's fence: "...you may join the group of
selected subscriber languages only after successfully finishing x
opt-in projects..."

I for one would be a candidate for the opt-out anyhow. On a condition
of course it's not anything beyond say 4000 words.

Regards and I have downloaded the two files from SVN already,

smo

[Nukeador]

Spanish (es) opts-in

Regards.

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[Milos DInic]

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Hungarian(hu) added.

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[Milos DInic]

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Slovenian(sl) added.

[Milos DInic]

On 03/05/2011 02:50 PM, Nukeador wrote:
> Spanish (es) opts-in
>
> Regards.

>
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Spanish(es) added.

[Toni Hermoso Pulido]

Al 05/03/11 06:43, En/na Staś Małolepszy ha escrit:

ca opts in.

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[Atsushi Shimono]

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hi,

I'd like to opt-in for Japanese(ja).

thx.

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Mozilla Evangelist; Mozilla Japanese Translation Group / PhD Science,Astrophysics
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[João Miguel Neves]

pt-PT opts in

[Michael 'Coce' Köhler]

Hi,

> I'm pulling countries from

> http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details/json/regions/ [...]

Any update on this? I’ve just finished the German localization of the
messages.po (it now awaits proofreading), but the geo.pl isn’t ready yet.

It’s okay with me if we have to do the translation of the geo.pl
ourselves, but if so, I’d like to get it done before the next project’s
localization starts. So I’d be grateful for an update on this. ;-)

Thanks and regards

Michael

[Toni Hermoso Pulido]

Al 07/03/11 16:57, En/na Michael 'Coce' Köhler ha escrit:

Hello,

many locales would be able to get most of the country information by
doing a simple 'msgmerge'
(http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/msgmerge-Invocation.html)
using this resource as reference:
http://translationproject.org/domain/iso_3166.html
Resulting po can be imported back to Verbatim.

I can help those locale who may need a hand on these technical skills.

Best,

[Michael 'Coce' Köhler]

Hi Toni,

> many locales would be able to get most of the country information by

> doing a simple 'msgmerge' [...] using this resource as reference:

> http://translationproject.org/domain/iso_3166.html Resulting po can
> be imported back to Verbatim.

I just tried that, and it works great. After some small corrections,
I’ve now got a completely localized geo.po. I’ll check it for errors and
if none are found, I’ll try to updload that file.

Thanks for the advice!

Regards

Michael

[Staś Małolepszy]

Michael 'Coce' Köhler, Mon Mar 07 16:57:03 +0100 2011:

> Hi,
>
> > I'm pulling countries from
> > http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details/json/regions/ [...]
>
> Any update on this? I’ve just finished the German localization of the
> messages.po (it now awaits proofreading), but the geo.pl isn’t ready yet.

Hey Coce,

I'm waiting for a new version of this file, and right now I know that
it will be significantly different from the current one.

We will use the AMO's JSON files to provide localized country names
(and for locales that are not in [1] I'll use the transaltions that
Toni linked to).

Instead, the geo.po file will contain names of major cities around the
world, but the exact list has not been yet determined, unfortunately.
I don't think translating these city names will be critical, FWIW.

[1] http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details/json/regions/

> It’s okay with me if we have to do the translation of the geo.pl
> ourselves, but if so, I’d like to get it done before the next project’s
> localization starts. So I’d be grateful for an update on this. ;-)

Yeah, I get it. I'll post here again as soon as I know more about the
city names.

Thanks,
-stas

[Staś Małolepszy]

Staś Małolepszy, Sat Mar 05 06:55:25 +0100 2011:

>
> - Please focus on messages.po for now.

Just to reiterate this: please do not work on the geo.po file yet -- it
will change significantly today or tomorrow.

[Iacopo Benesperi]

Il 05/03/2011 06:43, Staś Małolepszy ha scritto:
> It's actually pretty neat and I personally love the design of the site,
> too. Please have a sneak peek here:
>
> http://l10n.mozilla.org/~stas/fx4special/spark1.png

Hi Staś,
do we have a stage server for this? Apart for the nice screenshot, it
would be nice to have a website so see (even if it doesn't work
properly) so I can have an idea of where the strings go precisely, so I
can better review the translation our localizers have made.

thanks,
Iacopo

[Benoit]

I support that. For example I have no idea if the custom CSS
instructions are needed in our case.

--
Benoit
FrenchMozilla l10n team

[Yaşar Arabacı]

Hey,

I want to opt-in for Turkish translation, but, I don't know how to
use svn thingy, and .po files. If you teach me, I'll learn quick.

I use linux (openSUSE 11.4), if that is related to my question.

05-03-2011 07:43, Staś Małolepszy yazmış:
> Hello all,
>
> Me again :) Alright, this is the last one for today and probably for
> a few more days too. Thanks for bearing with me =^^=.
>
> Let's switch the context and talk about mobile. I hereby present to
> you Firefox Spark, a social game designed around sharing the link to
> a Firefox for Mobile download. The machanics are rather simple: by
> clicking your link, your friends will make your Spark grow, which in
> turn will unlock badges (achievements!) and will make you level up.
> There's also a global visualization of the shares between cities in the
> world.
>

> It's actually pretty neat and I personally love the design of the site,
> too. Please have a sneak peek here:
>
> http://l10n.mozilla.org/~stas/fx4special/spark1.png
>

[Zbigniew Braniecki]

Hi Yaşar,

Yaşar Arabacı wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I want to opt-in for Turkish translation, but, I don't know how to
> use svn thingy, and .po files. If you teach me, I'll learn quick.

Ok, let me help you.

You need to go to Verbatim (http://localize.mozilla.org), select Spark,
Turkish and start localizing right away! :)

Cheers,
g.
--

Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org)

[Staś Małolepszy]

Benoit, Mon Mar 14 22:01:09 +0100 2011:

Hey guys,

Sorry for getting back to you a bit late. Hopefully you have seen my
other emails about Spark's stage. Have you been able to log in and
preview the site?

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help!

[Nukeador]

Hi,

Any idea why Spark "Coming soon" page, linked from Firefox RC1 for
Android home page is English only?

http://spark.mozilla.org

[Besnik Bleta]

Më 03/05/2011 01:40 PM, Staś Małolepszy shkrojti:

> Besnik Bleta, Sat Mar 05 09:11:23 +0100 2011:
>> Opting in for Albanian (sq) locale
>
> Done.

Sorry for opting out, regressing my previous opting in for this project.
There is no localized release of FF Mobile for sq.

Cheers
Besnik