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Appstore metadata localization improvements
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Description

Things to update since last maintenance:

  • New languages added to app store for which no localized metadata is given in plist. Add all new languages metadata for the appstore (Arabic, for example) to the TWN pipeline, as we have for the previous 20+ Appstore languages.
  • Ensure "Wikipedia" is present for all languages as a keyword for SEO/discovery for multilingual users
  • Shorten and improve description. Encourage locale sensitive translations.

Event Timeline

JMinor triaged this task as Medium priority.May 25 2022, 8:28 PM
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Engineering sync notes:

There's some uncertainty about the ask in the other bullet points, but we are solid on sending release notes through the translatewiki flow, then finding a way to get them into App Store Connect. These notes are thoughts around that.

  • Maybe we could have some sort of ReleaseNotes.swift file, similar to CommonStrings.swift, with multiple release notes strings per release. This should naturally flow through translate wiki and get translations merged back into the project without additional work on our side.
  • We'll need some additional process work (maybe a new fastlane lane that we kick off manually, or something integrated into our deploy fastlane lane) that copies those translated release notes into the fastlane/metadata/nn/release_notes.txt file. We are unsure if release_notes.txt will propagate up into App Store Connect. We can lean on the project's current version number to pull the correct version release notes string.
JTannerWMF lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Mar 7 2023, 7:54 PM