Today we are excited to celebrate a huge milestone. Ethereum.org Now Supported 30 languages! 🎉🎉🎉
Since we launched website translation program Seven months ago, we saw how distributed collaboration could have a profound impact on the ecosystem and benefit hundreds of thousands of community members around the world.
Currently, 467 volunteers from 52 language groups help non-English speaking communities access ethereum.org in their native language.
Thanks to these volunteers, 16% of ethereum.org’s total traffic now goes to the non-English version of the site. Over time, this number has increased significantly.
Two months ago, the website team set a goal for the second quarter to add 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: Upgrading existing languages to site v1.1
In the third quarter, we set a new goal of upgrading all languages to v1.1, the latest version of ethereum.org, reflecting the site’s current content. There are currently 16 languages waiting to be upgraded to v.1.1, which builds on previous content. Additionally, more content will be updated in the third quarter. The languages we are currently focusing on are listed below along with percentages showing translation progress.
- Portuguese, Brazilian (83%)
- Lithuanian (79%)
- Dutch (69%)
- Spanish (69%)
- Russian (59%)
- Portuguese (56%)
- Igbo (52%)
- Japanese (48%)
- Korean (48%)
- Greece (48%)
- Polish (48%)
- Slovenian (48%)
- Czech (48%)
- Persian (44%)
- Thai (38%)
- Vietnamese (19%)
Would you like to contribute to our translation efforts? We recommend working with the latest version (v 1.1). If you already started working on a lower version, that’s okay! I will add the finished version to the website.
Once again, we look forward to your continued support of our third quarter goals. Of course, support for languages not listed is always welcome.
How to participate?
latest update
Below are the latest updates across our website translation programs.
1. Confirmation page
We would like to thank everyone who helped us achieve this milestone. We will soon have a special recognition page that will include a list of volunteer names (or nicknames to protect your privacy). If you want to change your current name or remain anonymous, 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 the names and brief summaries (e.g. language, word count) of these special contributors to recognize their outstanding contributions and encourage potential existing and new volunteers to join our force.
3. Fill out your Github and Twitter handles.
We will continue to thank our contributors on Twitter with a thank you page. Whenever a new language was updated, we briefly thanked the contributors by mentioning their nicknames (or real names) in the Twitter announcement.
In addition to the current format, we’d like to tag contributors’ Twitter accounts and mention their GitHub accounts in our Twitter announcements. To standardize this process, contributors can enter information they want to share into their Crowdin profile. The instructions listed below can serve as a reminder and guide for entering the required information.
Instructions for updating your Crowdin profile:
move to (Account Settings)
Enter any information you would like to share in the (About Me) section. This will appear in Twitter announcements.
all. Name (or nickname):
rain. Github:
Seed. Twitter:
d. Anonymous: Yes / No
Even if you don’t want to be featured or want to remain anonymous, we respect your choice. Leave that space blank and select ‘Yes’ in the ‘Anonymous’ field.
4. Content translation program
Finally, we are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed the first batch trial of our content translation program. We also experimented with expanding our translation efforts to content outside of Ethereum.org using the three carefully selected articles below.
- Ethereum 2.0 Phase on EthHub: German, Brazilian PortugueseKorean, Arabic, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish
- About collusion – Vitalik Buterin: German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish
- How does Ethereum work anyway? Written by: Preeti Kasireddy: German, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese
We’re excited to be able to offer this great content in other languages. But for now we’ll focus on the tons of new content being added to ethereum.org. If you’re already working on this ecosystem content, don’t worry! I’ll be happy to upload it as soon as it’s complete.
Join our program
We are very proud of this recent milestone and look forward to adding more languages in the future to serve a wider global community. As always, a huge thank you to all the volunteers who give their time and energy to support this program. If you haven’t yet joined the program and are interested in doing so, please do so. here! 🦄
Special thanks to Joseph Schweitzer for the great feedback and inlak16 for the amazing celebration animation.