The ethereum.org translation program is stay greater than two yearsand we’re excited to share a couple of milestones we have achieved since its inception, in addition to a few of our plans for the longer term.
Since we launched the initiative in 2019, greater than 2,000 neighborhood members have contributed, translating a complete of two.8 million phrases to this point!
Due to all these actions, ethereum.org is now accessible in 37 completely different languages.
Whereas English stays the first language considered on the location (88% of whole web page views), visitors to translated pages can also be rising and has greater than tripled since final yr:
Among the latest advances we have made:
- In December 2020, we introduced the creation of model 2.0+ content material. Due to our translators, 19 languages have already been translated to model 2.0 or increased.
- We have expanded our assets for translators and up to date all public references to the Translation Program. For extra data on how one can become involved, go to Translation program web page on the web site.
- Our translator neighborhood was additionally concerned within the translation Ethereum Staking Launchpadan initiative that was launched earlier this yr and is presently accessible in 17 languages.
- We not too long ago organized translation teams to permit our translators to attach extra simply with one another and the ethereum.org workforce. There are presently ten translation teams stay on our Discord server, with new ones being added upon request. Get in contact with us on Discord if you wish to be part of!
Lastly, the newest growth we would prefer to announce as we speak…
New variations of content material
We’ve revealed new variations of content material containing pages on ethereum.org which have been not too long ago added to the web site or considerably up to date.
Along with importing new content material for our translators, we have additionally damaged down present variations of content material into extra detailed segments. This can permit translators to cope with high-impact content material, such because the homepage, in additional accessible components of the job. This enables contributors to achieve milestones extra simply and permits us so as to add translated content material to the location extra shortly.
New content material variations are divided as follows:
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Homepage and web site navigation
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Use Ethereum and key studying websites
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Use case and contribution pages
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Documentation for builders (core matters)
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Documentation for builders (Ethereum tech stack)
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White paper
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Documentation for builders (superior matters)
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Common pages and extra studying pages
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Developer Guides
Be a part of our mission and begin translating!
Wanting forward
Because the third quarter attracts to an in depth, we’re already waiting for the subsequent quarter and past.
Under you’ll find a few of our plans and proposed initiatives. We admire neighborhood enter in addition to suggestions and concepts. If you want to become involved or recommend areas we might deal with sooner or later, please ship us a message at prijevodi@ethereum.org.
Extent
We’re increasing the scope of the Translation Program additional ethereum.org content material to incorporate different necessary content material within the Ethereum ecosystem.
Initially, we’re exploring the potential of translating related weblog posts with Ethereum Basis Weblog.
Extra details about this initiative might be posted on ethereum.org and the ethereum.org Discord.
Know of precious neighborhood assets that you just assume we should always translate? Please tell us!
Translator recognition
All of the progress we have made to this point would not be potential with out our glorious translators, which is why we’re exploring higher methods to acknowledge them.
The primary such initiative is the growth of our POAP program, the place translators can declare completely different POAPs based mostly on the variety of phrases they’ve translated this yr.
Extra details about our POAP program
Within the fourth quarter of this yr, we plan so as to add translator leaderboards and a recognition web page to the Translation Program web page, which is able to permit us to showcase all of our contributors on the web site, in addition to spotlight a few of our excellent translators.
We’ll additionally discover issuing credentials and different types of validation for key contributors, so tell us what you’d worth most!
Translation program assets
Going ahead, we are going to proceed to develop our translator assets to offer them with as a lot data as potential about taking part in this system and utilizing Crowdin.
This can permit for simpler onboarding of recent translators and supply our contributors with extra context on project-specific translation conventions, terminology and directions, making their work simpler in addition to resulting in increased high quality and extra constant translations.
Along with translator assets, we are going to create documentation detailing the interpretation workflow and course of, with the objective of supporting different translation initiatives within the Ethereum ecosystem. The objective right here is to create a guide with step-by-step tips on operating and managing a translation program, in order that extra Ethereum initiatives add assist for internationalization.
Be a part of
2021 was a productive yr, and the interpretation program noticed vital progress. We’re actually grateful for the extent of assist we have now obtained and wish to thank all our translators for serving to us make ethereum.org accessible to everybody.
If you wish to become involved, you’ll find extra data on how one can get began on our Translation program web pagebe part of our Discord server or be part of our mission in Crowdin.
