While it wasn't difficult to understand what the author was trying to say, I found this post jarring to read.
Surely Mozilla have native English speakers who can at least edit their blog posts? Anything that goes out to the public affects Mozilla's reputation, and should therefore be taken seriously.
> Surely Mozilla have native English speakers who can at least edit their blog posts?
Certainly, but we also try to let teams and individuals operate fairly autonomously, and I believe our open, honest humanity is one of our greatest strengths as both a global community and as a company.
Let's put this in context, though: This isn't a press release, nor is https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/ a press channel. Rather, it's someone openly sharing the UX team's ongoing work on their team blog, much the same as you'll find at https://blog.mozilla.org/creative/ or https://blog.mozilla.org/services/. Could Shiqi's posts have used a pass by a native English speaker? Certainly. But I'm happy to be part of an organization that shares openly at the occasional cost of mistranslations.
Plus, I'm sure the UX team will learn from this and adjust their review process accordingly. :)
I think you make some excellent points, but I'd like to share some perspective from the outside (and from someone who strongly supports Mozilla and its mission):
> Let's put this in context, though: This isn't a press release, nor is https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/ a press channel.
That distinction may be well known internally, but nobody else knows or cares to learn about it; we're going to base our judgement on impressions: The page says "Mozilla UX" in big letters at top and it's on the mozilla.org domain; to me and I suspect to almost everyone else outside Mozilla, it's official Mozilla communication.
It's great that you encourage your team to communicate with the outside world, but that communication would be more effective in this case if it had been edited (and I mean edited - thanks for keeping the marketing department out of it). It looks like all your blogs combined have only a few posts per month, so this shouldn't be a particularly onerous task.
Surely Mozilla have native English speakers who can at least edit their blog posts? Anything that goes out to the public affects Mozilla's reputation, and should therefore be taken seriously.