Ethereum.org is an educational site and portal for Ethereum – for many people, it is their first exposure to Ethereum, the place where they find their first wallet or dapp to use, and the main resource to start learning or they raise their level. the knowledge.
To best serve this purpose, we ran it ethereum.org translation program since July 2019, aiming to make the site’s content available to everyone, including more than 6 billion non-English speakers.
By providing educational content about Ethereum and basic onboarding pages in as many languages as possible, we make learning about Ethereum and becoming an Ethereum user or developer as easy as possible for everyone, regardless of the languages they speak.
The result of this effort has been a steady increase in non-English page views as we add more translated content to the site, with visits to ethereum.org in languages other than English currently accounting for over a quarter of all traffic on website.
The site is open source and anyone can contribute to the code, content, features, design, translations or any other aspect of the site. Learn about different ways to contribute on our contributor pages.
The Translatathon
To raise awareness of the importance of localizing content across the board, onboard new contributors to the program, incentivize translations into our less active languages, and help our contributor community, we hosted the first ethereum. org Translatathon in August of this year. Here’s how it went.
What is Translatathon?
Translatathon is a translation competition, similar to a hackathon.
Participating in Translatathon requires no coding skills or technical background. Anyone who is bilingual and has some basic knowledge of Ethereum can participate.
It’s also an event that allows attendees to learn about Ethereum by translating the site’s content, while helping us make that content more accessible and competing for prizes at the same time!
Here’s a brief overview of how the ethereum.org Translatathon is organized:
- 2 week application period
- Participants who apply and form groups
- Translation period of 1 week
- Participants translating content to ethereum.org project on Crowdin
- They compete against each other in two categories: Team’s and Individuals
- Machine translation is prohibited!
- 1 week evaluation and QA period
- All participants were assessed and given a score for their translations
- The winners were determined based on them total number of translated words are multiplied by them score multiplier
If you are interested in learning more, full details are available at Translatathon page.
How did it go?
In total, the Translatathon received 621 applications and during the translation period, 217 participants translated into 56 different languages.
The total volume of translated content during the competition was 1.47 million words, making August by far the most productive month for the Translation program (previous best: 497 thousand words).
The volume of content translated during the 1-week translation period is equivalent to ~50% of the total content translated in the program for all of 2022.
Looking at the goals we wanted to achieve with the Translatathon:
Raise awareness of the importance of content localization – this is impossible to measure and is a never-ending process, but we have heard from people who are interested in participating in similar initiatives and some projects that want to start or improve their localization processes
Added new contributors to the program – throughout the month, a total of 486 new members joined ethereum.org project on Crowdinwith many participants and winners being new contributors
Incentivize translations into less active languages – participants were translated into 56 different languages, including 7 new languages in which the site is not yet available. There were a total of 27 languages with over 10,000 words translated, which will allow us to add a lot of newly translated content to the site in the coming weeks
Back to our contributors – over 70% of all Translatathon participants (155 out of 217) were eligible for some kind of prize, with a total prize of $30,000 + other prizes
Languages
The general distribution of active languages was very diverse, with a total of 56 languages and 31 languages with 2 or more participants.
Based on activity and number of participants, a few languages stood out:
- Turkish: 20 translators, 167 thousand translated words*
- Indonesian: 8 translators, 196,000 translated words
- Spanish: 15 translators, 116 thousand translated words
*With this effort, 100% of the site’s content is translated into Turkish, just in time Devconnect Istanbul 👀
Other most active languages were Polish (63,000 translated words), German (59,000 translated words), Russian (58,000 translated words), Traditional Chinese (15 translators) and Persian (13 translators).
Results
The winners in the Individual and Team categories were:
Individuals
- 1st place: Ministry of Education (Spanish)
- 2nd place: Satglow (Hungarian)
- 3rd place: wosek_ (polishing)
Team’s
- 1st place: Sinasi (Turkish)
- 2nd place: Translation volunteers (Turkish)
- 3rd place: TME (Persian)
In addition to the top entrants, we also gave honorary awards to 30 individuals and 10 teams, awards for the top translator in each language, and participation awards for all entrants who did not win any of the other awards and translated over 100 words.
Congratulations to everyone and thank you for participating!
What’s next?
While the Translatathon is over, the ethereum.org translation community is always working to translate the site’s content and improve the site’s accessibility for non-English speakers and anyone can participate.
You can learn more about the Translation program and take part here.
If you missed the Translatathon, we’ll be running similar community engagement initiatives in the near future, so stay tuned!
The best way to stay informed ethereum.org or become a contributor is to join our Discord community. Join us and help us continue to improve ethereum.org.
Congratulations to all Translatathon award winners:
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