Ethereum.org is an academic web site and portal to Ethereum – for many individuals, it’s their first contact with Ethereum, the place the place they discover their first pockets or dapp to make use of, and their go-to useful resource to start out studying or degree up their information.
To finest serve this function, we now have been working the ethereum.org Translation program since July 2019, desiring to make the content material on the positioning obtainable to everybody, together with over 6 billion non-English audio system.
By offering instructional content material about Ethereum and important onboarding pages in as many languages as attainable, we’re making studying about Ethereum and turning into an Ethereum consumer or developer as straightforward as attainable for everybody, whatever the languages they communicate.
The results of this effort has been a gentle enhance in non-English pageviews as we add extra translated content material to the positioning, with visits to ethereum.org in languages apart from English presently representing over one-quarter of all visitors to the positioning.
The web site is open-source, and anybody can contribute to the code, content material, options, design, translations, or every other side of the positioning. Study alternative ways to contribute on our contributing pages.
The Translatathon
To lift consciousness in regards to the significance of localizing content material throughout the house, onboarding new contributors to this system, incentivizing translations in our much less energetic languages, and giving again to our neighborhood of contributors, we ran the primary ethereum.org Translatathon in August this 12 months. Right here’s the way it went.
What’s a Translatathon?
A Translatathon is a translation competitors, much like a hackathon.
Collaborating in a Translatathon requires no coding abilities or a technical background. Everybody who’s bilingual and has some fundamental information about Ethereum can take part.
It’s also an occasion that enables individuals to find out about Ethereum by translating the web site content material while serving to us make this content material extra accessible and competing for prizes on the similar time!
Here’s a transient overview of how the ethereum.org Translatathon was organized:
- 2-week software interval
- Contributors making use of and forming groups
- 1-week translation interval
- Contributors translating content material within the ethereum.org venture in Crowdin
- Competing in opposition to one another in two classes: Groups and People
- Machine translation was forbidden!
- 1-week analysis and QA interval
- All individuals have been evaluated and given a rating for his or her translations
- Winners have been decided primarily based on their whole variety of translated phrases multiplied by their multiplier rating
When you’re interested by studying extra, full particulars can be found on the Translatathon web page.
How did it go?
In whole, the Translatathon obtained 621 purposes, and in the course of the translation interval, 217 individuals translated into 56 completely different languages.
The full quantity of translated content material in the course of the competitors was 1.47 million phrases, making August by far the best month for the Translation program but (earlier finest: 497k phrases).
The quantity of content material translated in the course of the 1-week translation interval is equal to ~50% of all content material translated in this system by means of all of 2022.
Wanting on the targets we wished to attain with the Translatathon:
Increase consciousness in regards to the significance of localizing content material – that is not possible to measure and a unending course of, however we now have heard from people, interested by taking part in related initiatives, and a few initiatives, seeking to begin or enhance their localization processes
Onboard new contributors to this system – all through the month, a complete of 486 new members joined the ethereum.org venture in Crowdin, with many individuals and prize winners being new contributors
Incentivizing translations into much less energetic languages – individuals translated into 56 completely different languages, together with 7 new languages the web site shouldn’t be obtainable in but. There have been a complete of 27 languages with over 10k translated phrases, which is able to enable us so as to add plenty of newly translated content material to the positioning within the coming weeks
Giving again to our contributors – greater than 70% of all Translatathon individuals (155 out of 217) have been eligible for some form of prize, with a complete prize pool of 30,000$ + different prizes
Languages
The final distribution of energetic languages was very numerous, with a complete of 56 languages and 31 languages with 2 or extra individuals.
Based mostly on exercise and variety of individuals, some languages stood out:
- Turkish: 20 translators, 167k translated phrases*
- Indonesian: 8 translators, 196k translated phrases
- Spanish: 15 translators, 116k translated phrases
*With this effort, 100% of the web site content material is translated into Turkish, simply in time for Devconnect Istanbul 👀
Different most energetic languages included Polish (63k translated phrases), German (59k translated phrases), Russian (58k translated phrases), Chinese language Conventional (15 translators), and Persian (13 translators).
Outcomes
The winners throughout the People and Groups classes have been:
People
- 1st place: MGETH (Spanish)
- 2nd place: Satglow (Hungarian)
- third place: wosek_ (Polish)
Groups
- 1st place: sinasi (Turkish)
- 2nd place: Translation Volunteers (Turkish)
- third place: TME (Persian)
Along with the highest individuals, we additionally gave out honorable point out prizes to 30 people and 10 groups, prizes for the highest translator in every language, and participatory prizes for all individuals who didn’t win any of the opposite prizes and translated over 100 phrases.
Congratulations to everybody, and thanks for taking part!
What’s subsequent?
Whereas the Translatathon is over, the ethereum.org translation neighborhood is at all times engaged on translating the web site content material and bettering accessibility on the positioning for non-English audio system, and anybody can be part of.
You possibly can be taught extra in regards to the Translation program and become involved right here.
When you’ve missed out on the Translatathon, we will probably be working related neighborhood engagement initiatives within the close to future, so keep tuned!
One of the best ways to remain up-to-date with ethereum.org or change into a contributor is to be part of our neighborhood on Discord. Come be part of us and assist us proceed to enhance ethereum.org.
Congratulations to all of the Translatathon prize winners:
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