5 months ago
The 2nd variation of the ethereum.org Translatathon is successful the books! This year, we saw 327 contributors construe an unthinkable 2.53 cardinal words crossed 70 languages. Let's look astatine the details:
What is the Translatathon?
The Translatathon is our yearly translation contention to summation the magnitude of non-English Ethereum content.
Participation is unfastened to anyone who is bilingual and nary method cognition is required. During the Translatathon, participants tin larn much astir Ethereum portion contributing to ethereum.org and competing for prizes.
- 2 weeks of applications
- 9 days of translations
- 2 weeks of prime evaluations
The extremity was to get much translations successful less-represented languages, grow our multilingual content, onboard caller contributors, and reward existing ones.
The numbers: 2023 vs 2024
How enactment compares with past year’s Translatathon:
- Active translators: 217 → 327 (50% increase)
- Words translated: 1.47M → 2.53M (70% increase)
- Languages translated: 56 → 70 (25% increase)
We dispersed $30,000 successful prizes among 189 eligible participants. The apical 10 translators besides scored Devcon tickets and discounts. Not excessively bad!
Our apical translators
Here were our apical 10 participants:
- MGETH
- Jagadeesh
- luniacllama
- Sepehr Hashemi
- Hedwika
- Satglow
- Hursit Tarcan
- George Kitsoukakis
- Joe Chen
- 0xmike7
Special acknowledgment to each of you for your astonishing work!
What this means for ethereum.org
The Translatathon volition person a important interaction connected translated contented disposable connected ethereum.org! Here’s what we’re adding to the site:
- 1.35 cardinal freshly translated words
- 3,173 pages added oregon updated crossed 55 languages
- 6 marque caller languages added (Akan Twi, Ewe, Hausa, Shona, Tagalog, and Yoruba)
The bigger picture
With these additions, ethereum.org volition screen 68 non-English languages. Add English to the mix, and we'll person contented that's autochthonal to astir 5.5 cardinal people. That's astir 67% of the satellite who tin present statesman learning astir Ethereum successful their autochthonal language!
Beyond ethereum.org: ecosystem impact
Thanks to our astonishing contributors, galore languages connected ethereum.org were already afloat translated. To marque definite everyone could articulation successful the amusive (and vie for prizes), we included contented from different of Ethereum projects too. Here's the breakdown of translation activity:
- ethereum.org: 2.1 cardinal words
- ethereum.org developer tutorials: 164k words
- EthStaker: 127k words
- Solidity connection documentation: 78k words
- Remix: 42k words
- Privacy & Scaling Explorations: 12k words
- SpeedRun Ethereum: 5k words
ETHGlossary
As portion of the Translatathon we created ETHGlossary, our caller instrumentality that's turning Ethereum terminology into a multi-language adventure!
ETHGlossary gamifies translating Ethereum presumption crossed implicit 60 languages. You tin ballot connected the champion translations for cardinal concepts and person discussions connected wherefore definite translations enactment (or don't)! We were thrilled to person 84 contributors suggest 6226 translations crossed 40 languages during the translation period.
Our extremity is to proceed to iterate connected ETHGlossary, becoming a afloat open-source app that everyone tin usage and lend to. We're aiming to make the champion assets for Ethereum presumption successful each language, boosting the full ecosystem.
Getting unneurotic IRL
To bring translators together, we supported community-organised Translation Hubs successful 11 countries. Over 100 radical showed up to translate, chat each things Ethereum, and person a bully time!
What's next?
While the Translatathon mightiness beryllium over, our translation programme ne'er sleeps.
Want to assistance marque Ethereum acquisition much accessible successful your language? Learn much astir the program, oregon join our task successful Crowdin.
There are tons of different ways you tin lend to ethereum.org. See the afloat database here, oregon join america connected Discord.
A immense convey you to each Translatathon participants and congratulations to the winners! You're each helping to marque Ethereum genuinely global, 1 connection astatine a time.
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