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Are you a locale leader and want us to include new members in our upcoming reports? is Tuesday, May 12.
If you’re interested to see more details on upcoming Firefox releases and milestones, . You may also notice a shift voice for user directed messages — with source strings becoming more Genuine, Fiery, and Playful. See this recent Given the short turnaround time for this feature, you will notice that many strings are intentionally kept consistent across platforms — and started landing on Desktop as well. We’re also pre-landing as many strings as possible, ahead of implementation, to give localizers more time to complete translations.
* Did you know that you can track the number of new strings in a project from the Insights page in Pontoon? Check for example . This new hub brings together previously scattered resources into a single, streamlined experience, consolidating developer, localizer, and admin documentation from three separate sites into one cohesive platform. By centralizing content, the new system makes it easier to find, navigate, and maintain documentation, ensuring contributors of all roles have quick access to up-to-date and consistent guidance.
Search. You can now set default . This allows you to tailor your search without having to adjust filters each time.
The same settings are also applied when using the , which brings a major step forward in unifying localization across Mozilla by allowing users to search for strings across all projects and locales in one place. Inspired by Transvision and designed as its successor, the feature integrates deeply with Pontoon, making it easy to filter results, compare translations across languages, and jump directly into the translation workflow.
. The goal is not to change how the feature works, but to make its output more consistent and better aligned with the context available in Pontoon. For example, the updated prompt improves how punctuation is handled, reducing variability in suggestions.
In addition, the prompt now includes more contextual data:
- String ID.
- Comments, including pinned comments from project managers.
- Matches from terminology.
This additional context helps the model generate more relevant suggestions. It also represents a first step toward making LLM suggestions more useful, ahead of potential experiments with displaying them by default alongside suggestions from traditional machine translation.
New contributors. We’re also excited to welcome a group of new contributors who have started making an impact on Pontoon over the past few months. , , , and about enhancing comment management in Pontoon—an excellent example of the kind of collaboration and knowledge sharing we love to see in the community.
outlining the criteria required to enable pretranslation for a locale, along with guidance on how to monitor its effectiveness over time (for example, by tracking metrics like acceptance rate or time to review). If you’re a locale manager and want to try pretranslation for your locale, you can request it .
Friends of the Lion
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We continue the localizer spotlight series this year.
- Meet from Argentina needs no introduction to the localization communities. From Phoenix 0.3 to 24 years later, he shares how he got started, what it meant to be part of the Firefox 1.0 release, his experience as an l10n manager, and why using Mozilla products in his own language — Spanish (Argentina) — continues to motivate him.
- What does 18 years of volunteer localization look like? From discovering Firefox and Linux out of curiosity to leading the Portuguese translation team, from Kazakhstan began his localization journey with a simple question: why wasn’t Kazakh available in widely used software? That curiosity grew into a long-term commitment to localization, leading to the successful translation of Firefox and many other open source projects. His work demonstrates the power of perseverance in making technology accessible to all.
If you enjoy the series, please help us identify the localizers you’d like to see featured filling out this
Questions? Want to get involved?
If you want to get involved, or have any question about l10n, reach out to:
- – L10n Project Manager
- – L10n Project Manager for Common Voice, Mozilla Foundation
- – L10n Project Manager for SUMO
- – Pontoon, Fluent dev
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