We hope that you’re all excited for the upcoming year-end holidays. At the moment, we have got some thrilling new modifications to announce for Ethereum.org’s Translation Program and a few milestones to have a good time.
To start out, we are able to’t thanks sufficient for your entire assist this 12 months. Because of you we have been in a position to replace 16 languages in 2020!
And since our launch 13 months in the past, distinctive pageviews of translated content material have grown 10 instances greater than final 12 months. 🎉
However we do not wish to cease there…
Assist us with v2.0+
At the moment we’re saying our subsequent huge content material push that is prepared for translations. It’s numerous content material, so it is in Crowdin throughout v2.0, v2.1, and v2.2. These variations cowl the next pages:
- Eth2 – Necessary data that covers every thing Eth2, from the Beacon Chain and staking, to why we’d like the Eth2 upgrades and the way they’ll change the community.
- Ethereum Developer Sources – a large spectrum of instructional content material for each freshmen and superior builders.
- and extra!
Begin translating v2.0 in Crowdin now!
Let’s get international
At the moment, the ethereum.org web site is supporting 33 languages, however 25 languages are nonetheless in progress on Crowdin. We’re seeing extra demand from smaller language communities so we have added extra regional languages to Crowdin.
Our purpose is to make ethereum.org extra accessible for customers all over the world, no matter language and placement. We’re getting nearer, and we imagine that together with your assist (and by working as a neighborhood), we’ll obtain our purpose.
A brand new UX for ethereum.org translations
Regardless of the visitors development for translated pages, we’ve seen that the expansion relative to total visitors has gone down this 12 months. As seen beneath, the pageviews of translated pages reached almost 20% of complete distinctive pageviews in February but it surely has declined to 10% in latest months.
We imagine that it is because we’ve expanded our English content material a lot over the previous couple of months that translated content material has grow to be outdated. In consequence extra customers are reverting again to the English web site.
With this knowledge in thoughts, plus the will to make our newest content material accessible to all language websites, we’re making extra modifications…
Updates to the language websites
We’re involved that customers of the positioning in different languages are lacking out on the most recent data, which is just accessible in English. So we’re making the next modifications:
- If a web page is not accessible in your chosen language, we’ll show the English content material alongside the banner beneath (which might be translated in your chosen language). This implies you may all the time be seeing probably the most up-to-date content material, even when we have not been in a position to translate it but.
- If there have been English updates to a web page you are viewing in your chosen language, we’ll give you the possibility to view the brand new English content material. That manner, you may know that there’s new data that has not but been translated.
Our content material modifications are sometimes extra than simply copy modifications. We replace the positioning usually so as to add extra up-to-date merchandise, articles, and different sources that we do not need you to overlook out on.
We hope this strategy will provide a greater expertise of ethereum.org, and that it would encourage extra translation contributions.
Updates to the interpretation program
- Hiding outdated variations in CrowdIn
To deal with the most recent web site translation, we’ve hidden outdated variations (v.1.0 and v.1.1) in CrowdIn. The beforehand translated content material in outdated variations are saved in our challenge’s Translation Reminiscence. This might be used to hurry up the interpretation of the brand new variations by pre-translating the identical or related strings.
- Updating new variations: v.2.x
As talked about, to translate all new content material, we’ve break up issues up into a couple of minor variations: v.2.0, v.2.1, and v,2.2. We’ve given these numbers within the order of precedence. We encourage you to translate the bottom model first, and to work your manner as much as increased variations. If you would like to translate increased vrsions, that is nice too, however we’ll add these later after the decrease variations are uploaded.
Name for extra translators
For many people, 2020 was a difficult 12 months. We deeply respect the neighborhood’s tireless enthusiasm and ongoing contributions throughout this tough time. We’re trying ahead to persevering with our nice work with you and to welcoming extra volunteers subsequent 12 months. We’re all the time on the look out for extra translators to assist us get extra of us concerned. If you happen to’re conscious of anybody that could be , please be at liberty to direct them to the translation program, or to our Discord.
And bear in mind that you would be able to all the time submit questions, collaborate with different translators, or simply hand around in our ethereum.org Discord server. Search for the #translations channel for translation-specific queries.
We want you and your family members a secure and peaceable year-end.🌟🎄
