Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestone and Updates

At the moment 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 influence within the ecosystem, benefiting lots of of 1000’s of group members around the globe.

As of at present, 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 visitors to ethereum.org is now directed in direction of non-English variations of the location. Over time, this quantity has grown considerably.

Two months in the past, the web site crew set a Q2 objective 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 under:

• 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 current languages to website v1.1

In Q3, we have set a brand new objective of upgrading all languages to the most recent model of ethereum.org, v1.1, which displays to present content material on the location. At the moment, we’ve 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 centered on now are listed under, 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%)

Desirous about contributing to our translation effort? We encourage you to work in direction of the most recent model (v 1.1). In the event you’ve already began engaged on a decrease model, that is fantastic too! We’ll add any accomplished model to the web site.

Once more, we want to have your steady help in our Q3 objective. After all, help with unlisted languages is all the time welcome.

How to get involved?

Newest Updates

Listed here are the most recent updates we’ve made throughout the web site translation program.

1. Acknowledgment web page

We would 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 comprise an inventory of volunteer names (or nicknames for the privateness concious). If you would like to vary your present identify or to remain nameless, please change your Crowdin profile setting by following the instruction on the finish of this part.

2. High 10 contributor checklist

Sooner or later, there will likely be a separate desk displaying the names and a quick abstract (i.e. language, variety of phrases) to acknowledge excellent contributions of those particular contributors, whereas additionally encouraging potential current and new volunteers to affix our pressure.

3. Replenish your Github and Twitter handles

Together with the Acknowledgement web page, we will likely be constant in thanking contributors on Twitter. With each new language replace, we’ve given a quick acknowledgment to the contributors by mentioning their nickname (or actual identify) 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. So as to standardize this course of, contributors can fill of their Crowdin profiles with the data they want us to share. The directions, listed under, will help function a reminder and a information for getting into obligatory info.

Directions for updating your Crowdin profile:

1. Go to the [Account Settings]

2. Fill out the [About Me] part with the data you need to share. This will likely be proven on our Twitter announcement.

   a. Title (or Nickname):

   b. Github:

   c. Twitter:

   d. Nameless: Sure / No

In the event you don’t need to be launched or need to keep nameless, we respect your desire. Please go away the place empty and examine the “nameless” discipline 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 outdoors of Ethereum.org, with the three fastidiously chosen articles under:

• 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 had been delighted to have the ability to provide this nice content material in different languages. However for now, we will likely be shifting focus to quite a lot of new content material coming to ethereum.org. In the event you’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 pleased with our current milestones and we stay up for serving extra world communities by including extra languages sooner or later. As all the time, an enormous thanks is owed to the entire volunteers who’ve given their time and power to help this program. In the event you aren’t but a part of this system and involved in collaborating, come be a part of us here! 🦄

Particular due to Joseph Schweitzer for glorious suggestions and inlak16 for the wonderful celebration animation.