At this time we’re excited to have fun an enormous milestone – Ethereum.org now helps 30 languages! 🎉🎉🎉
Since we launched the Web site Translation Program seven months in the past, we’ve seen how decentralized collaboration may end up in a major affect within the ecosystem, benefiting a whole lot of 1000’s of group members world wide.
As of in the present day, 467 volunteers from 52 language teams have helped make ethereum.org accessible to non-English talking communities of their mom tongues.
Thanks to those volunteers, 16% of all site visitors to ethereum.org is now directed in direction of non-English variations of the positioning. Over time, this quantity has grown considerably.
Two months in the past, the web site workforce set a Q2 aim of including six extra languages to the 24 that existed on the time. We’re honored to have achieved this milestone by integrating the languages listed beneath:
- 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)
Q3: Upgrading present languages to website v1.1
In Q3, we have set a brand new aim of upgrading all languages to the newest model of ethereum.org, v1.1, which displays to present content material on the positioning. At the moment, we have now 16 languages ready to be upgraded to v.1.1, which builds on earlier content material. Furthermore, there shall be extra content material up to date in Q3/This autumn. The languages we’re centered on now are listed beneath, paired with a proportion to indicate the progress of the interpretation:
- 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%)
Interested by contributing to our translation effort? We encourage you to work in direction of the newest model (v 1.1). When you’ve already began engaged on a decrease model, that is high quality too! We’ll add any accomplished model to the web site.
Once more, we want to have your steady help in our Q3 aim. In fact, help with unlisted languages is at all times welcome.
Newest Updates
Listed below are the newest updates we’ve made throughout the web site translation program.
1. Acknowledgment web page
We might like to present credit score to all who’ve helped us hit this milestone, for which we’re very appreciative. We are going to quickly dedicate a particular recognition web page, which can include a listing of volunteer names (or nicknames for the privateness concious). If you would like to vary your present title or to remain nameless, please change your Crowdin profile setting by following the instruction on the finish of this part.
2. Prime 10 contributor record
Sooner or later, there shall be a separate desk exhibiting the names and a short abstract (i.e. language, variety of phrases) to acknowledge excellent contributions of those particular contributors, whereas additionally encouraging potential present and new volunteers to hitch our power.
3. Replenish your Github and Twitter handles
Together with the Acknowledgement web page, we shall be constant in thanking contributors on Twitter. With each new language replace, we have now given a short acknowledgment to the contributors by mentioning their nickname (or actual title) within the Twitter announcement.
On high of the present format, we want to tag contributors’ Twitter handles and point out their GitHub accounts within the Twitter announcement. With a purpose to standardize this course of, contributors can fill of their Crowdin profiles with the data they want us to share. The directions, listed beneath, may help function a reminder and a information for coming into vital info.
Directions for updating your Crowdin profile:
Go to the [Account Settings]
Fill out the [About Me] part with the data you wish to share. This shall be proven on our Twitter announcement.
a. Title (or Nickname):
b. Github:
c. Twitter:
d. Nameless: Sure / No
When you don’t wish to be launched or wish to keep nameless, we respect your choice. Please depart the place empty and examine the “nameless” area with sure.
4. Content material translation program
Lastly, we’re excited to announce that we have efficiently wrapped up the primary batch trial of the Content material Translation Program. We additionally experimented with increasing our translation efforts to content material exterior of Ethereum.org, with the three fastidiously chosen articles beneath:
- Ethereum 2.0 phases by EthHub: German, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish
- On Collusion by Vitalik Buterin: German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish
- How does Ethereum work, anyway? by Preethi Kasireddy: German, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese
We have been delighted to have the ability to provide this nice content material in different languages. However for now, we shall be shifting focus to loads of new content material coming to ethereum.org. When you’re already engaged on this ecosystem content material, no worries! We’ll be glad to add it as quickly as you are completed.
Be a part of our program
We’re very pleased with our latest milestones and we stay up for serving extra international communities by including extra languages sooner or later. As at all times, an enormous thanks is owed to the entire volunteers who’ve given their time and power to help this program. When you aren’t but a part of this system and fascinated about taking part, come be part of us here! 🦄
Particular because of Joseph Schweitzer for wonderful suggestions and inlak16 for the superb celebration animation.
