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Rename the Running Locally sidebar entry to Contributor Setup - #1310

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Why

Running Locally and Self-hosting both describe running Firecrawl locally, so the sidebar gives readers no way to tell them apart. Someone who wants to run Firecrawl on their own box reasonably clicks Running Locally and lands in the contributor toolchain (Node 22, pnpm 11.4.0, hand-installed Redis, Go 1.23, Rust) when the Docker Compose path on the self-hosting page was what they wanted.

The real difference between the two pages is the audience, not the mechanism: one is for changing Firecrawl code, the other for running a pinned release. Contributor Setup says that in two words, which is about all a sidebar scan affords.

What changed

  • contributing/guide.mdx: sidebarTitle is now Contributor Setup.
  • Three inbound links in contributing/open-source-or-cloud.mdx and contributing/self-host.mdx updated to match, dropping a now-redundant "contributor" in the surrounding sentence.

Self-hosting keeps its title: it matches SELF_HOST.md and it is the term people search for.

Scope

Page title, description, og:*, and the URL are all unchanged, so no SEO or link impact. Localized copies under es/, fr/, ja/, pt-BR/, and zh/ are untouched per CLAUDE.md; the translation pipeline owns them.

"Running Locally" and "Self-hosting" both describe running Firecrawl
locally, so the sidebar gave readers no way to tell them apart. Someone
who wants to run Firecrawl on their own box reasonably clicks "Running
Locally" and lands in the contributor toolchain (Node, pnpm, Redis, Go,
Rust) when the Docker Compose path on the self-hosting page was what
they wanted.

"Contributor Setup" names the audience instead of the mechanism, which
is the actual difference between the two pages. Self-hosting keeps its
title: it matches SELF_HOST.md and it is the term people search for.

Page title, description, and URL are unchanged. Localized files are left
to the translation pipeline per CLAUDE.md.
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