Support Hebrew translations

[marco]

Add Hebrew as a supported language for translations in Firefox.

[Jon]

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

[zentie]

I was very happy after the latest update to see I could translate directly in Firefox, as I prefer not to use google. That happiness disappeared in 3 seconds, however, when I realised I couldn't do translations to and from Hebrew. I do plenty of studies in Afrkaans and English and sometimes use Hebrew text as my basis. I honestly hope this can be brought in sooner rather than later, and then we must look at Afrikaans as well.

[ignotopittore]

Under the settings for translation you can't include or exclude languages that you want to "never translate" or translate.  Mac OS Big Sur 11.7.7   Firefox 118.0.2 64-bit

[zelik]

Given the amount of high tech development coming out of Israel, I believe supporting the translation of webpages from Hebrew to English is an obvious choice. How many votes does it take to make this happen?

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[snoopy]

Is there anything the community can do to help move this forward?

[marco]

@snoopy  there are many potential ways you could help, depending on your skills. We are working on a document to list the possibilities, ranging from things to do without technical skills to things to do with deep programming skills.

In the meantime, feel free to join the "Firefox Translations" room on Matrix.

[zentie]

How do we get onto Matrix and the "Firefox Translations"?

[zentie]

Please let us know how to get onto the "Firefox Translations" room on Matrix, as no links are provided.

[marco]

You can start from https://chat.mozilla.org/ and then find the room on there.

[snoopy]

Oh @marco I was curious, is this in progress document already somewhere available to look at?

[marco]

A sneak peek of ways to help:

Data

• Finding parallel and monolingual datasets
• Ensuring the datasets are on OPUS

Cleaning

• Inspecting datasets
• Tuning cleaning rules per dataset/language
• Hellp build a golden set of good sentence pairs
  

Evaluation

• Looking at final translations on the website and giving free form feedback

Code

• Contributing to the code base:
• Taking “good first issue” bugs for beginners
• Providing input and taking on “help wanted”, more advanced issues for experts/experienced developers
• Adding support for other data importers
• Contributing to OpusTrainer and/or OpusCleaner
  
• Writing tests

Training

• Feedback on our training configs, whether it’s enough data and the selected datasets are good quality, adjust datasets and hyperparameters, etc.