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 data.
To greatest serve this function, we’ve got 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 academic content material about Ethereum and important onboarding pages in as many languages as potential, we’re making studying about Ethereum and changing into an Ethereum person or developer as simple as potential for everybody, whatever the languages they communicate.
The results of this effort has been a gentle improve in non-English pageviews as we add extra translated content material to the positioning, with visits to ethereum.org in languages aside from English at present 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 facet of the positioning. Find out about other ways to contribute on our contributing pages.
The Translatathon
To boost consciousness concerning the significance of localizing content material throughout the area, onboarding new contributors to this system, incentivizing translations in our much less energetic languages, and giving again to our group of contributors, we ran the primary ethereum.org Translatathon in August this yr. Right here’s the way it went.
What’s a Translatathon?
A Translatathon is a translation competitors, much like a hackathon.
Taking part in a Translatathon requires no coding expertise or a technical background. Everybody who’s bilingual and has some primary data about Ethereum can take part.
Additionally it is an occasion that enables members 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 identical time!
Here’s a temporary 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 undertaking 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 members have been evaluated and given a rating for his or her translations
- Winners have been decided based mostly on their complete variety of translated phrases multiplied by their multiplier rating
Should you’re excited about studying extra, full particulars can be found on the Translatathon web page.
How did it go?
In complete, the Translatathon acquired 621 functions, and through the translation interval, 217 members translated into 56 completely different languages.
The full quantity of translated content material through the competitors was 1.47 million phrases, making August by far the best month for the Translation program but (earlier greatest: 497k phrases).
The quantity of content material translated through the 1-week translation interval is equal to ~50% of all content material translated in this system via all of 2022.
Trying on the objectives we wished to attain with the Translatathon:
Elevate consciousness concerning the significance of localizing content material – that is not possible to measure and a endless course of, however we’ve got heard from people, excited about collaborating in comparable initiatives, and a few initiatives, trying 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 undertaking in Crowdin, with many members and prize winners being new contributors
Incentivizing translations into much less energetic languages – members translated into 56 completely different languages, together with 7 new languages the web site is just not obtainable in but. There have been a complete of 27 languages with over 10k translated phrases, which can enable us so as to add a whole lot of newly translated content material to the positioning within the coming weeks
Giving again to our contributors – greater than 70% of all Translatathon members (155 out of 217) have been eligible for some form of prize, with a complete prize pool of 30,000$ + different prizes
Languages
The overall distribution of energetic languages was very various, with a complete of 56 languages and 31 languages with 2 or extra members.
Based mostly on exercise and variety of members, 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 members, 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 members who didn’t win any of the opposite prizes and translated over 100 phrases.
Congratulations to everybody, and thanks for collaborating!
What’s subsequent?
Whereas the Translatathon is over, the ethereum.org translation group 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 a part of.
You’ll be able to study extra concerning the Translation program and become involved right here.
Should you’ve missed out on the Translatathon, we shall be working comparable group engagement initiatives within the close to future, so keep tuned!
One of the simplest ways to remain up-to-date with ethereum.org or change into a contributor is to be a part of our group on Discord. Come be a part of us and assist us proceed to enhance ethereum.org.
Congratulations to all of the Translatathon prize winners:
0xAntonio • 0xberil • 0xkal • 0xmike7 • 0xokan • 0xOZ • 0xsahbaz • 0xselimc • 1Arc • afiqz • Afoma • alamalu • altinocoelho • anaphant • arifulone • Astronaut828 • Bdwms • bhangbuddy • bicebaris • bitblondy • BlockchainVisionary • blockson • Bohjypellar • boluwatife_4523 • Carla78 • cc03668 • charlaiz • chiogonzaleztn • cinaryasemin • CoinHoodie • coiniran • cryptoraketeros • Cryptotranslator34 • ct1aic.eth • cychung • daniel.zarzecki047 • danimeister • dawyer • DefiWithJerry • dovbyshbgd • EffectChen • erfanej • fabiannycnd • Faedonn • Fengfeng0157 • fernandostds9 • Fuliggine • globart • Gokulvinayak • gonzagramaglia • Hackedd.eth • hamkad28 • hangleang • hedwika • horvathbenedek92 • hyperalchemy • hypolithe • ikpongetimfon • inlak16 • insidetrader • iremkoci • isaachavertz • isinasli • itsdeeters • Itungbenga • jasminesprout • jaux • JayYu • johannt • Jokowdd • kenforever • khalilhammod19 • KyungwonPark • leogold01 • less_explorer • lilyfish • lukakovacica • luniacllama • _Manax • Mcreimer • MGETH • ming30650 • minhkek • mireiacanaleta • Miromiro • mk1023 • MK10 • motunbeg • MrbaTab • msliwinski123 • Muneeb938 • norhorn • ntiunn • nugen0x • omahs • omkarkamale001 • omsify • Ozje • patthpapong • plamarque • rafarocha • RahayuRafika_12 • regislanderge • rooibos • RubenSilva • ryoji.imai • Sagitario • sakeenah • Sardor_Abdulla • Satglow • selcuk45 • seunbayo • sh0xsh • sipbikardi • smrtdeal • socopower • sophiesworld. • Soplayerone • SRISAILAPU_AKSHAYA • TanjaPale • tarcanhursit • tareqgh • taxir.abjadao • Temmytee • ten5235 • thebuzagi • thenfh2023 • timtey • TommyWolf • u2fsdgvkx19emy6whu3nhg0aboze • utomo878 • vnnv • w1lkns • waseemnaik • washbin • wholesomebruh • wosek • www.shota • xaviershen1 • Xeift • yulkor • zeydrm • zharjac
