The ethereum.org Translation Program has been live for over two years, and we’re excited to share a few milestones now we have hit since its inception, in addition to a few of our plans for the longer term.
Since we launched the initiative in 2019, over 2,000 group members have contributed, translating a complete of two.8 million phrases up to now!
Due to all this exercise, ethereum.org is now available in 37 different languages.
Whereas English continues to be the first language seen on the positioning (88% of complete web page views), visitors to translated pages is rising as nicely and has greater than tripled since final yr:
A few of the latest progress now we have made:
- In December 2020, we announced the creation of content versions 2.0+. Due to our translators, 19 languages have already been translated to model 2.0 or above.
- Now we have expanded our translator sources and up to date all public references to the Translation Program. For extra info on the right way to become involved, go to the Translation Program page on the web site.
- Our group of translators has additionally been concerned in translating the Ethereum Staking Launchpad, an effort that launched earlier this yr and is at the moment out there in 17 languages.
- We not too long ago organized translation teams to permit our translators to attach with one another and the ethereum.org crew extra simply. There are at the moment ten translation teams stay on our Discord server, with new ones being added on request. Get in touch with us on Discord if you need to affix!
Lastly, the newest growth we wish to announce as we speak…
New content material variations
Now we have printed new content material variations, containing pages on ethereum.org which have not too long ago been added to the web site or considerably up to date.
Along with importing new content material for our translators, now we have additionally damaged out the present content material variations into extra granular buckets. This may enable translators to deal with high-impact content material, just like the homepage, in additional approachable chunks of labor. This allows contributors to achieve milestones extra simply and permits us so as to add translated content material to the web site faster.
The brand new content versions are divided as follows:
Homepage and website navigation
Use Ethereum and key Study pages
Use case and Contributing pages
Developer documentation (foundational subjects)
Developer documentation (Ethereum tech stack)
Whitepaper
Developer documentation (superior subjects)
Normal pages and extra Study pages
Developer tutorials
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Trying forward
With Q3 coming to an finish, we’re already trying forward on the subsequent quarter and past.
You could find a few of our plans and proposed initiatives under. We respect contributions from the group, in addition to suggestions and concepts. If you want to become involved or suggest areas we may concentrate on sooner or later, please ship us a message at translations@ethereum.org.
Scope
We’re increasing the scope of the Translation Program past ethereum.org content material to incorporate different essential content material within the Ethereum ecosystem.
To start with, we’re exploring the choice of translating related weblog posts from the Ethereum Foundation blog.
Extra details about this initiative can be printed on ethereum.org and the ethereum.org Discord.
Know of worthwhile group sources that you simply imagine we must always translate? Please tell us!
Translator recognition
All of the progress we’ve made up to now couldn’t have been attainable with out our superb translators, which is why we’re exploring higher methods to acknowledge them.
The primary of such initiatives is an growth of our POAP program, the place translators are capable of declare totally different POAPs primarily based on the variety of phrases they’ve translated this yr.
More information about our POAP program
In This fall this yr, we’re planning on including translator leaderboards and an acknowledgment web page to the Translation Program web page, which is able to enable us to characteristic all of our contributors on the web site, in addition to spotlight a few of our excellent translators.
We may even be exploring issuing credentials and different types of endorsement for key contributors, so tell us what you’d worth most!
Translation Program sources
Shifting ahead, we’ll proceed to construct out our translator sources, so as to present them with as a lot details about taking part in this system and utilizing Crowdin as attainable.
This may enable for simpler onboarding of latest translators and supply our contributors with extra context on translation conventions, terminology and project-specific directions, making their work simpler, in addition to resulting in greater high quality and extra constant translations.
Along with sources for translators, we’ll create documentation detailing the workflow and translation course of, with the goal of supporting different translation initiatives within the Ethereum ecosystem. The objective right here is to construct out a playbook with step-by-step pointers on launching and managing a translation program, in order that extra Ethereum tasks add internationalization assist.
Get entangled
2021 has been a productive yr, and the Translation Program has seen vital progress. We’re really grateful for the extent of assist now we have acquired and need to thank all of our translators for serving to us make ethereum.org accessible to everybody.
If you wish to become involved, you’ll find extra info on the right way to get began on our Translation Program page, be part of our Discord server or be part of our challenge in Crowdin.
