[adblockbrowser.org] - Remove Hindi and Bengali from the website and all traces of these languages

[Shikitita]

Background

Hindi and Bengali aren't part of our top priority languages

What to change

All traces of these two languages should be removed from adblockbrowser.org as well as the possibility of selecting them on the website

[saroyanm]

@Stephan can you please provide a statistics about people visiting Bengali and Hindi version of the website ?
I think we need to be sure that the usage is minor so that we are on the safe side of removing the languages completely.

[juliandoucette]

BUMP.

+ @saroyanm wouldn't this be done in crowdin?

[jpeterka]

@saroyanm 5-10 website visitors a day use the hindi or bengali version of the website. That's 0.02% of daily website visitors.

[jeen]

Those numbers seem sufficiently low to justify removing both languages from the website.

[saroyanm]

Replying to juliandoucette:

BUMP.

+ @saroyanm wouldn't this be done in crowdin?

This need some tests, we specify languages in settings page as well, depending on what is Tamara plan about crowdin strings the removal approach might be diffrent:

• @Tamara you want to keep the translation in crowdin or remove them from crowdin as well ?

[Shikitita]

Replying to saroyanm:

Replying to juliandoucette:

BUMP.

+ @saroyanm wouldn't this be done in crowdin?

This need some tests, we specify languages in settings page as well, depending on what is Tamara plan about crowdin strings the removal approach might be diffrent:

• @Tamara you want to keep the translation in crowdin or remove them from crowdin as well ?

Sorry for my late reply.

It shouldn't be a problem if the translations stay in Crowdin. Just note that any future new texts or sections (e.g.: the text for the Android permissions as per issue #3598), won't be requested for translation into Hindi and Bengali.

[juliandoucette]

Thanks Shikitita.

If I understand correctly, there is no action to be taken to resolve this ticket. I believe that a language is added automatically if there are enough translations in crowdin. Can you please verify saroyanm? (And close this ticket if there is nothing to do.)

[saroyanm]

Replying to juliandoucette:

Thanks Shikitita.

If I understand correctly, there is no action to be taken to resolve this ticket. I believe that a language is added automatically if there are enough translations in crowdin. Can you please verify saroyanm? (And close this ticket if there is nothing to do.)

There actually is (if Tamara wants to keep the translations in Crowdin): Tamara's request is about removing the mentioned two languages from the repository, but not from the Crowdin, so we might need to remove all Hindi and Bengali locales and update settings file accordingly (to prevent script from fetching the translations until Tamara say so, is how I understand).

If Tamara is fine with removing them from Crowdin as well, the only thing she need to do is to remove the mentioned languages from the Crowdin interface. That what I meant to find out in my comment.

[saroyanm]

Replying to saroyanm:

Replying to juliandoucette:

Thanks Shikitita.

If I understand correctly, there is no action to be taken to resolve this ticket. I believe that a language is added automatically if there are enough translations in crowdin. Can you please verify saroyanm? (And close this ticket if there is nothing to do.)

There actually is (if Tamara wants to keep the translations in Crowdin): Tamara's request is about removing the mentioned two languages from the repository, but not from the Crowdin, so we might need to remove all Hindi and Bengali locales and update settings file accordingly (to prevent script from fetching the translations until Tamara say so, is how I understand).

Tamara is this correct ?

If Tamara is fine with removing them from Crowdin as well, the only thing she need to do is to remove the mentioned languages from the Crowdin interface. That what I meant to find out in my comment.

If the above is not correct, should we proceed with current solution ?

[Shikitita]

Replying to saroyanm:

Replying to saroyanm:

There actually is (if Tamara wants to keep the translations in Crowdin): Tamara's request is about removing the mentioned two languages from the repository, but not from the Crowdin, so we might need to remove all Hindi and Bengali locales and update settings file accordingly (to prevent script from fetching the translations until Tamara say so, is how I understand).

Tamara is this correct ?

It absolutely is. The translations will stay in Crowdin for the time being until we know what to do with them in the future, if going ahead and display them again or removing them completely.

However, if this is too much work, let me know and I will do a backup of the translations and then remove the languages directly from Crowdin.

[abpbot]

A commit referencing this issue has landed:
​Issue 4712 - [adblockbrowser.org - Remove Hindi and Bengali from the website and all traces of these languages]

[ire]

Leaving this note from @saroyanm during code review:

The only problem I see with this is that the language specific links will be
broken, so we do not have a redirection when a adblockbrowser.org/$lang$/url is
being requested, but considering the fact that this pages have a very few visits
I think we good to go.