Community:SummerOfCode14:Brainstorming

Localization plays a major role in Mozilla in spreading its vision of an open and literate web. Localizers are major contributors in making the open source products from Mozilla like Firefox and websites available in 30+ languages, this involves a lot of data being generated in the translation followed by a review process of these translated string. The project aims to use existing database of translations for a particular string and use rating factors and other rating methods to figure out the best translation to a particular string. Also this project can use automatic translation since the data generated by the users over many years can be used for mining and then processing for translation of strings.

This project could also be used in localization of the documentation present on MDN into different languages for the world to use. A feed can be built onto MDN requesting the to be localized content as paragraphs of data and then localizing them using the automatic localization features.

Benefits

Localization time can be saved More time can be spent in localized string verification than in localization thus giving higher quality localizations.

Short Term Goals

To make a machine learning integration with Mozilla’s localization platform.

Long Term Goal

To export the project into a full fledged stand alone application with links to various localization platforms like Transifex, Pootle etc.., thus enhancing the localization features of many open source software projects.

An enhancement to the 2010 Localization machine learning project implemented by Gautam Akiwate.

• Understanding of open webservices APIs
• Python (Django) / JavaScript
• Familiarity with a library used for quickly generating a web UI to a server-side Python script

• Documentation of Project

Project Brief

A dashboard for keeping track of l10n statistics for various projects in a single place with ease of access for localizers and project co-ordinators in mind. As an added feature the Dashboard can be developed in a mobile friendly responsive layout.

Problem Statement

Mozilla has a very large number of simultaneous localization projects, each using a different localization tool. As such, there is no central entity where localizers can go to, to find a list of all the projects that they contribute to, and find detailed statistics (completion status, contribution metrics, etc.) across individual projects.

Too many URLs and translation systems to remember along with keeping track of all updates / statistics across various projects is quite a big manual process at the moment. Having all these in a single place would allow contributors / locale leads to take quicker and better informed decisions about which projects to prioritize while working.

High-Level Project Goals

• The system should provide a consolidated view for l10n statistics across projects and provide easy access to individual projects.
• The system should be capable of data visualization for real time data gathered from multiple sources, to provide enhanced reporting capabilities.
• The dashboard should be a double ended one: i.e. have separate views for organizations/maintainers and individuals.
• It has to be modularized, so as to separate the view from the back-end stores.
• It needs to be easily deploy-able to enable individual teams to directly plug it to their own repositories and use it.
• The system has to be easily extendable to allow for easy modifications, as well as be light, efficient and user friendly.

• Pootle, Transifex etc. translation system APIs.
• HTML5, CSS3, JS.
• Data visualization tools.

• A basic prototype of the project can be found here.