diff --git a/build/index.js b/build/index.js
index a188d889fd53..7ebe064858ee 100644
--- a/build/index.js
+++ b/build/index.js
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ async function buildDocument(document, documentOptions = {}) {
   const doc = {
     isArchive: document.isArchive,
     isTranslated: document.isTranslated,
+    isActive: document.isActive,
   };
 
   doc.flaws = {};
diff --git a/client/src/document/organisms/metadata/index.tsx b/client/src/document/organisms/metadata/index.tsx
index 2b8e101260bf..8424b50aa1e9 100644
--- a/client/src/document/organisms/metadata/index.tsx
+++ b/client/src/document/organisms/metadata/index.tsx
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export function Metadata({ doc, locale }) {
   return (
     <aside className="metadata">
       <div className="metadata-content-container">
-        {!doc.isArchive && !doc.isTranslated && <OnGitHubLink doc={doc} />}
+        {doc.isActive && <OnGitHubLink doc={doc} />}
         <p className="last-modified-date">
           <LastModified value={doc.modified} locale={locale} />,{" "}
           <a href={`${doc.mdn_url}/contributors.txt`}>by MDN contributors</a>
diff --git a/content/constants.js b/content/constants.js
index 8116d7b88e51..0088595db15d 100644
--- a/content/constants.js
+++ b/content/constants.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 const fs = require("fs");
 const path = require("path");
-const { VALID_LOCALES } = require("../libs/constants");
+const { ACTIVE_LOCALES, VALID_LOCALES } = require("../libs/constants");
 
 require("dotenv").config({
   path: path.join(__dirname, "..", process.env.ENV_FILE || ".env"),
@@ -59,4 +59,5 @@ module.exports = {
   REPOSITORY_URLS,
   ROOTS,
   VALID_LOCALES,
+  ACTIVE_LOCALES,
 };
diff --git a/content/document.js b/content/document.js
index 472745b4a2ea..1c2f266c9613 100644
--- a/content/document.js
+++ b/content/document.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const {
   CONTENT_ARCHIVED_ROOT,
   CONTENT_TRANSLATED_ROOT,
   CONTENT_ROOT,
+  ACTIVE_LOCALES,
   VALID_LOCALES,
   ROOTS,
 } = require("./constants");
@@ -242,6 +243,8 @@ const read = memoize((folder) => {
   const locale = extractLocale(folder);
   const url = `/${locale}/docs/${metadata.slug}`;
 
+  const isActive = !isArchive && ACTIVE_LOCALES.has(locale.toLowerCase());
+
   // The last-modified is always coming from the git logs. Independent of
   // which root it is.
   const gitHistory = getGitHistories(root, locale).get(
@@ -271,6 +274,7 @@ const read = memoize((folder) => {
     ...{ rawHTML, rawContent },
     isArchive,
     isTranslated,
+    isActive,
     fileInfo: {
       folder,
       path: filePath,
diff --git a/libs/constants/index.js b/libs/constants/index.js
index c2d6e5b903ca..242785e30e95 100644
--- a/libs/constants/index.js
+++ b/libs/constants/index.js
@@ -51,8 +51,10 @@ const LOCALE_ALIASES = new Map([
 // This must match what we do in `language-menu/index.tsx` where the cookie
 // gets set in the client!
 const PREFERRED_LOCALE_COOKIE_NAME = "preferredlocale";
+const ACTIVE_LOCALES = new Set(["en-us", "fr", "ja", "zh-cn", "zh-tw"]);
 
 module.exports = {
+  ACTIVE_LOCALES,
   VALID_LOCALES,
   DEFAULT_LOCALE,
   LOCALE_ALIASES,