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I don't doubt that the Github-based CMS will allow for community-provided translations. I _do_ doubt that we'll see anything like the current set of languages covered at anything like the current levels of breadth and quality.

Like I said in another comment, approximately nobody translates technical documentation for fun.



A surprising amount of mediawiki documentation is translated by volunteers (i cant speak to the quality as i dont speak nonenglish, realistically the english source material isnt that great) but volunteers do translate things


Perhaps interestingly, I had a frustration in the other direction just last night:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Soria

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_de_Soria

Notice that the English page seems obviously translated by a non-native speaker, which has some implications not favorable to Mozilla's behavior here, specifically that ESL people will contribute documentation in English that native English-language speakers won't even provide for themselves.


Wikipedia translations are a bit different because they are not meant to be 1:1. The translations in theory are entirely separate articles.

I was thinking more like https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download vs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download/es




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