Ethereum.org Translatathon Recap

Ethereum.org is an acquisition website and portal to Ethereum - for galore people, it is their archetypal interaction with Ethereum, the spot wherever they find their archetypal wallet oregon dapp to use, and their go-to assets to commencement learning oregon level up their knowledge.

To champion service this purpose, we person been moving the ethereum.org Translation program since July 2019, intending to marque the contented connected the tract disposable to everyone, including implicit 6 cardinal non-English speakers.

By providing acquisition contented astir Ethereum and indispensable onboarding pages successful arsenic galore languages arsenic possible, we are making learning astir Ethereum and becoming an Ethereum idiosyncratic oregon developer arsenic casual arsenic imaginable for everyone, careless of the languages they speak.

The effect of this effort has been a dependable summation successful non-English pageviews arsenic we adhd much translated contented to the site, with visits to ethereum.org successful languages different than English presently representing implicit one-quarter of each postulation to the site.

The website is open-source, and anyone tin lend to the code, content, features, design, translations, oregon immoderate different facet of the site. Learn astir antithetic ways to lend on our contributing pages.

The Translatathon

To rise consciousness astir the value of localizing contented crossed the space, onboarding caller contributors to the program, incentivizing translations successful our little progressive languages, and giving backmost to our assemblage of contributors, we ran the archetypal ethereum.org Translatathon successful August this year. Here’s however it went.

What is simply a Translatathon?

A Translatathon is simply a translation competition, akin to a hackathon.

Participating successful a Translatathon requires nary coding skills oregon a method background. Everyone who is bilingual and has immoderate basal cognition astir Ethereum tin participate.

It is besides an lawsuit that allows participants to larn astir Ethereum by translating the website contented whilst helping america marque this contented much accessible and competing for prizes astatine the aforesaid time!

Here is simply a little overview of however the ethereum.org Translatathon was organized:

• 2-week exertion period
  • Participants applying and forming teams
• 1-week translation period
  • Participants translating contented successful the ethereum.org task successful Crowdin
  • Competing against each different successful 2 categories: Teams and Individuals
  • Machine translation was forbidden!
• 1-week valuation and QA period
  • All participants were evaluated and fixed a people for their translations
  • Winners were determined based connected their total fig of translated words multiplied by their multiplier score

If you’re funny successful learning more, afloat details are disposable connected the Translatathon page.

How did it go?

In total, the Translatathon received 621 applications, and during the translation period, 217 participants translated into 56 antithetic languages.

The full magnitude of translated contented during the contention was 1.47 cardinal words, making August by acold the astir productive period for the Translation programme yet (previous best: 497k words).

The magnitude of contented translated during the 1-week translation play is equivalent to ~50% of each contented translated successful the programme done each of 2022.

Looking astatine the goals we wanted to execute with the Translatathon:

Raise consciousness astir the value of localizing content - this is intolerable to measurement and a never-ending process, but we person heard from individuals, funny successful participating successful akin initiatives, and immoderate projects, looking to commencement oregon amended their localization processes

Onboard caller contributors to the program - passim the month, a full of 486 caller members joined the ethereum.org task successful Crowdin, with galore participants and prize winners being caller contributors

Incentivizing translations into little progressive languages - participants translated into 56 antithetic languages, including 7 caller languages the website is not disposable successful yet. There were a full of 27 languages with implicit 10k translated words, which volition let america to adhd a batch of recently translated contented to the tract successful the coming weeks

Giving backmost to our contributors - much than 70% of each Translatathon participants (155 retired of 217) were eligible for immoderate benignant of prize, with a full prize excavation of 30,000$ + different prizes

Languages

The wide organisation of progressive languages was precise diverse, with a full of 56 languages and 31 languages with 2 oregon much participants.

Based connected enactment and fig of participants, immoderate languages stood out:

• Turkish: 20 translators, 167k translated words*
• Indonesian: 8 translators, 196k translated words
• Spanish: 15 translators, 116k translated words

*With this effort, 100% of the website contented is translated into Turkish, conscionable successful clip for Devconnect Istanbul 👀

Other astir progressive languages included Polish (63k translated words), German (59k translated words), Russian (58k translated words), Chinese Traditional (15 translators), and Persian (13 translators).

Results

The winners crossed the Individuals and Teams categories were:

Individuals

• 1st place: MGETH (Spanish)
• 2nd place: Satglow (Hungarian)
• 3rd place: wosek_ (Polish)

Teams

• 1st place: sinasi (Turkish)
• 2nd place: Translation Volunteers (Turkish)
• 3rd place: TME (Persian)

In summation to the apical participants, we besides gave retired honorable notation prizes to 30 individuals and 10 teams, prizes for the apical translator successful each language, and participatory prizes for each participants who didn’t triumph immoderate of the different prizes and translated implicit 100 words.

Congratulations to everyone, and convey you for participating!

What’s next?

While the Translatathon is over, the ethereum.org translation assemblage is ever moving connected translating the website contented and improving accessibility connected the tract for non-English speakers, and anyone tin join.

You tin learn much astir the Translation programme and get progressive here.

If you’ve missed retired connected the Translatathon, we volition beryllium moving akin assemblage engagement initiatives successful the adjacent future, truthful enactment tuned!

The champion mode to enactment up-to-date with ethereum.org oregon go a contributor is to join our assemblage connected Discord. Come articulation america and assistance america proceed to amended ethereum.org.

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Congratulations to each the Translatathon prize winners:

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