Today we are excited to celebrate a huge milestone: ethereum.org is now supported 30 languages! 🎉🎉🎉
Since we launched the Website Translation Program Seven months ago, we saw how decentralized collaboration can have a significant impact on the ecosystem, benefiting hundreds of thousands of community members around the world.
To date, 467 volunteers from 52 language groups have helped make ethereum.org accessible to non-English speaking communities in their native languages.
Thanks to these volunteers, 16% of all ethereum.org traffic now goes to non-English versions of the site. Over time, this number has grown significantly.
Two months ago, the website team set a Q2 goal of adding six more languages ​​to the 24 that existed at the time. We are honored to have achieved this milestone by integrating the languages ​​listed below:
- Norwegian v.1.1
- Traditional Chinese v.1.1
- Malayalam v.1.1
- Ukrainian v1.1
- Lithuanian v.1.0
- Portuguese v.1.0
- Italian v1.0 -> v.1.1 (updated)
Q3: Update existing languages ​​to v1.1 site
In Q3, we set a new goal to update all languages ​​to the latest version of ethereum.org, v1.1, which reflects the current content of the site. We currently have 16 languages ​​waiting to be updated to v.1.1, which is based on previous content. Additionally, there will be more updated content in Q3 and Q4. The languages ​​we are currently focusing on are listed below, along with a percentage to show translation progress:
- Brazilian Portuguese (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%)
Are you interested in contributing to our translation effort? We encourage you to work towards the latest version (v 1.1). If you’ve already started working on a lower version, that’s fine too! We will add any full version to the website.
Once again, we want your continued support in our third quarter goal. Of course, support with languages ​​not listed is always welcome.
latest updates
These are the latest updates we’ve made to the entire website translation program.
one. recognition page
We would like to give credit to everyone who has helped us reach this milestone, for which we are very grateful. We’ll be dedicating a special acknowledgment page soon, which will contain a list of volunteer names (or nicknames for the privacy conscious). If you wish to change your current name or remain anonymous, please change your Crowdin profile settings by following the instructions at the end of this section.
2. List of top 10 contributors
In the future, there will be a separate table showing names and a brief summary (ie language, number of words) to recognize the outstanding contributions of these special partners, while also encouraging potential new and existing volunteers to join. to our strength.
3. Fill in your Github and Twitter identifiers
Along with the Thank You page, we will be consistent in thanking contributors on Twitter. With each new language update, we’ve given a short acknowledgment to contributors by mentioning their nickname (or real name) in the Twitter announcement.
In addition to the current format, we’d like to tag contributors’ Twitter handles and mention their GitHub accounts in the Twitter announcement. To standardize this process, contributors can fill out their Crowdin profiles with the information they would like us to share. The instructions, listed below, can help serve as a reminder and guide in entering the necessary information.
Instructions to update your Crowdin profile:
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Go to the (Account settings)
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Fill out the (About Me) section with the information you want to share. This will be displayed in our Twitter announcement.
a. Name (or Nickname):
b. GitHub:
C. Twitter:
d. Anonymous: Yes / No
If you do not wish to be featured or wish to remain anonymous, we respect your preference. Please leave the field empty and mark the “anonymous” field with yes.
Four. content translation software
Finally, we are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed the first batch test of the content translation program. We’re also experimenting with expanding our translation efforts to content outside of Ethereum.org, with the three handpicked articles below:
- Ethereum 2.0 Phases by EthHub: German, Brazilian PortugueseKorean, Arabic, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish
- On the collusion of Vitalik Buterin: German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish
- How does Ethereum work, anyway? by Preethi Kasireddy: German, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese
We are delighted to be able to offer this great content in other languages. But for now, we’ll shift the focus to a lot of new content coming to ethereum.org. If you’re already working on this ecosystem content, don’t worry! We will be happy to upload it as soon as it is finished.
Join our program
We are very proud of our recent milestones and look forward to serving more global communities by adding more languages ​​in the future. As always, a big thank you is due to all the volunteers who have given their time and energy to support this program. If you are not yet part of the program and are interested in participating, join us here! 🦄
A special thanks to Joseph Schweitzer for his excellent comments and to inlak16 for the incredible animation of the celebration.
