Immediately we’re excited to have a good time a serious milestone – Ethereum.org now helps 30 languages! 🎉🎉🎉
Since we launched A program for translating net pages seven months in the past, we noticed how decentralized collaboration can lead to important ecosystem affect, benefiting a whole bunch of 1000’s of neighborhood members around the globe.
Thus far, 467 volunteers from 52 language teams have helped make ethereum.org accessible to non-English talking communities of their native languages.
Thanks to those volunteers, 16% of all visitors on ethereum.org is now directed to non-English variations of the location. Over time, that quantity has grown considerably.
Two months in the past, the web site crew set a objective for the second quarter of including six extra languages to the 24 languages that existed on the time. We’re honored to have achieved this milestone by integrating the next languages:
- Norwegian v.1.1
- Chinese language Conventional v.1.1
- malayalam v.1.1
- Ukrainian v1.1
- Lithuanian v.1.0
- Portuguese v.1.0
- Italian v1.0 -> v.1.1 (up to date)
P3: Upgrading present languages to v1.1 website
Within the third quarter, we set a brand new objective of upgrading all languages to the newest model of ethereum.org, v1.1, which displays the present content material on the location. We at the moment have 16 languages ready to be upgraded to v.1.1, which builds on earlier content material. Furthermore, there will likely be extra content material up to date in Q3/This autumn. The languages we’re at the moment specializing in are listed beneath, paired with a proportion exhibiting translation progress:
- Portuguese Brazilian (83%)
- Lithuanian (79%)
- Dutch (69%)
- Spanish (69%)
- Russian (59%)
- Portuguese (56%)
- Igbo (52%)
- Japanese (48%)
- Korean (48%)
- Greek (48%)
- Polish (48%)
- Slovenian (48%)
- Czech (48%)
- Persian (44%)
- Thai (38%)
- Vietnamese (19%)
Concerned with contributing to our translation efforts? We encourage you to work in direction of the newest model (v 1.1). If you happen to’ve already began engaged on a decrease model, that is high-quality too! We are going to add every accomplished model to the web site.
As soon as once more, we wish your continued assist in our objective for the third quarter. After all, assist for languages not listed is at all times welcome.
The best way to get entangled?
Newest updates
These are the newest updates we have made to the web site translation program.
1. Affirmation web page
We wish to acknowledge everybody who helped us attain this milestone, for which we’re very grateful. We are going to quickly dedicate a particular recognition web page, which can embrace an inventory of volunteer names (or nicknames for the privacy-conscious). If you happen to want to change your present title or want to stay nameless, please change your Crowdin profile settings by following the directions on the finish of this part.
2. Record of 10 finest collaborators
In future, there will likely be a separate desk with names and a short abstract (ie language, phrase depend) to acknowledge the excellent contributions of those particular contributors, whereas additionally encouraging potential present and new volunteers to hitch our forces.
3. Populate your Github and Twitter handles
With a thanks web page, we’ll be constant in thanking contributors on Twitter. With every new language replace, we gave a brief thanks to contributors by mentioning their nickname (or actual title) in a submit on Twitter.
Along with the present format, we would prefer to tag contributors’ Twitter handles and point out their GitHub accounts within the Twitter submit. To standardize this course of, contributors can fill out their Crowdin profiles with the data they’d like us to share. The directions beneath can function a reminder and a information for getting into the required data.
Directions for updating your Crowdin profile:
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Go to [Account Settings]
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Fill it out [About Me] part with the data you wish to share. This will likely be proven on our Twitter submit.
a. Identify (or nickname):
b. Github:
c. Twitter:
d. Nameless: Sure / No
If you don’t want to be launched or want to stay nameless, we respect your needs. Please go away the sphere clean and mark the “nameless” subject with sure.
4. Content material translation program
Lastly, we’re excited to announce that we’ve got efficiently accomplished the primary batch trial of the content material translation program. We have additionally experimented with increasing our translation efforts to content material exterior of Ethereum.org, with three fastidiously chosen articles beneath:
- Phases of Ethereum 2.0 by EthHub: German, Brazilian PortugueseKorean, Arabic, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish
- About Vitalik Buterin’s secret deal: German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish
- How does Ethereum even work? by Preethi Kasireddy: German, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese
We had been happy to have the ability to supply this glorious content material in different languages. However for now, we’ll deal with loads of new content material coming to ethereum.org. If you happen to’re already engaged on this ecosystem content material, no worries! We’ll be completely happy to add it as quickly as you are completed.
Be part of our program
We’re very happy with our latest milestones and stay up for serving extra international communities by including extra languages sooner or later. As at all times, a giant thanks to all of the volunteers who gave their time and vitality to assist this program. In case you are not but a part of this system and are desirous about taking part, please be a part of us right here! 🦄
Particular because of Joseph Schweitzer for the wonderful suggestions and to inlak16 for the nice celebration animation.
