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Japanese Volunteer Translators Quit After Mozilla Begins Using Translation Bot

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from Linuxiac:



The Japanese branch of Mozilla's Support Mozilla (SUMO) community — responsible for localizing and maintaining Japanese-language support documentation for Firefox and other Mozilla products (consisting of Japanese native speakers) — has officially disbanded after more than two decades of voluntary work...

SUMO, short for Support Mozilla, is the umbrella project for Mozilla's user support platform, support.mozilla.org, that brings toget

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