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Migrate translations for iOS Home or add to translatewiki early
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Description

Background

When releasing the Home Feed to Android, we received feedback, especially from our major languages like German, that the feed and feature were appearing in English. Spanish-speaking users reported confusion about the announcement because it was all in English. Because this is a major app change, we will prioritize translation of the UI for the top 6 most used app languages to ease the transition.

Task

Required:

  • Bring in existing translations for Topics list used in onboarding (used in Android, and on Growth extension)
  • Dmitry: Here is our script that I vibe-coded to fetch the translations for all the Topic names. These should definitely not need to be duplicated through TranslateWiki.
  • Ensure release happens after the app has consumed a translatewiki update (surface during release conversations)

Nice toi have

  • Explore if there's a way to automate finding & bringing the relevant translations from the android repo over to iOS
  • If not possible, see if we can add all the copy strings to translate.wiki early, so volunteers can work on them before release

Note: Design can help with creation of copy doc if needed.

Focus languages
  • German
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Russian
  • Italian
  • Spanish

Event Timeline

Mazevedo renamed this task from Add translations for Home feed iOS to [L] Add translations for Home feed iOS.Jul 3 2026, 1:50 PM
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Can be a small if we successfully automate using a coding agent.

HNordeenWMF raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.Jul 7 2026, 7:40 PM
HNordeenWMF lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.
HNordeenWMF renamed this task from [L] Add translations for Home feed iOS to Migrate translations for iOS Home or add to translatewiki early.Jul 14 2026, 10:46 PM
HNordeenWMF raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.
HNordeenWMF raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.
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HNordeenWMF moved this task from Backlog to P1 (Next Sprint) on the Explore Feed Refresh iOS board.
HNordeenWMF moved this task from Backlog to P2 (Needs refinement) on the App Experience board.
Mazevedo set the point value for this task to 2.Wed, Jul 29, 3:50 PM

@Mazevedo if we don't get to this before release, can we ensure that the most recent volunteer translations from Translate.wiki are at least pulled into the app at the time of release?

HNordeenWMF lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Wed, Aug 12, 3:43 PM