New Localized Download Pages

By clicking on this link, you’ll see the newly created download page for Firefox in Afrikaans.

This is an example of how the l10n-drivers team is trying hard to listen to our l10n community, and trying even harder to act upon the suggestions.  We gathered feedback from a lot of locale leaders who thought we should experiment by creating individual download pages for locales who did not have a localized site featuring their version of Firefox.  This idea was only validated when Chofmann traveled to Argentina and heard from some that 70% of Argentinians are using the es-ES (Spain) version of Firefox because search results pointed users to the Mozilla Europe es-ES page.

So, we joined up with marketing and web-dev to take on the experiment and made it a quarterly goal for the localization team.  We started by researching which locales lacked a download page.  Several of the European locales have such a page due to the great work in the past by our localizers and Mozilla Europe.  But, for those who didn’t, we took on the effort to create ones.  We should have as many as 40 new sites pointing to localizations by the end of this month.  Special thanks to Pascalc, Laura Mesa, John Slater, Clouserw, and Oremj who did all this, and to the localizers who translated their pages.  Let’s see how it impacts downloads.