Today we are excited to celebrate a milestone – Ethereum.org now supports 30 languages! 🎉🎉🎉
Since we launched the Website Translation Program Seven months ago, we saw how decentralized collaboration can have a significant impact on the ecosystem, benefiting hundreds of thousands of community members across the world.
To date, 467 volunteers from 52 language groups have helped make Ethereum.org accessible to non-English speaking communities in their native language.
Thanks to these volunteers, 16% of all traffic to ethereum.org is now directed to non-English versions 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 reached 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 v1.1 site
In the third quarter, we set a new goal: to upgrade all languages to the latest version of ethereum.org, v1.1, which reflects the current content of the site. Currently, 16 languages are waiting to be upgraded to version 1.1, which builds on previous content. Additionally, more content will be updated in Q3 and Q4. The languages we are currently focusing on are listed below, combined with a percentage to show translation progress:
- Brazilian Portuguese (83%)
- Lithuanian (79%)
- Dutch (69%)
- Spanish (69%)
- Russian (59%)
- Portuguese (56%)
- Igbo (52%)
- Japanese (48%)
- Korean (48%)
- Greek (48%)
- Polish (48%)
- Slovenian (48%)
- Czech (48%)
- Persian (44%)
- Thai (38%)
- Vietnamese (19%)
Would you like to contribute to our translation efforts? We encourage you to work towards the latest version (v 1.1). If you’ve already started working on a lower version, that’s no problem! We will add any completed version to the website.
Once again, we would like to have your continued support in our third quarter goal. Of course, support for unlisted languages is always welcome.
How to get involved?
Latest updates
Here are the latest updates we’ve made to the Website Translation program.
1. Thank you page
We would like to pay tribute to everyone who helped us reach this milestone, for which we are very grateful. We will soon dedicate a special recognition page, which will contain a list of volunteer names (or nicknames for those concerned about their privacy). If you would like to change your current name or remain anonymous, please edit 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 names and a brief summary (i.e. language, word count) to recognize the outstanding contributions of these special contributors, while also encouraging existing potential volunteers and new to join our force.
3. Fill in your Github and Twitter logins
In addition to the thank you page, we will systematically thank contributors on Twitter. With each new language update, we briefly thanked contributors by mentioning their nickname (or real name) in the Twitter announcement.
In addition to the current format, we would like to mark contributors’ Twitter handles and mention their GitHub accounts in the Twitter announcement. To standardize this process, contributors can fill out their Crowdin profile with the information they want us to share. The instructions listed below can serve as a reminder and guide for entering the necessary information.
Instructions for updating your Crowdin profile:
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Go to (Account settings)
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Fill out the (About Me) section with the information you want to share. This will be posted on our Twitter announcement.
A. Name (or nickname):
b. GitHub:
c. Twitter:
d. Anonymous: Yes / No
If you do not wish to be featured or wish to remain anonymous, we respect your preference. Please leave the field empty and check the “anonymous” field with yes.
4. Content translation program
Finally, we are excited to announce that we have successfully completed the first batch trial of the Content Translation program. We’ve also experimented with extending our translation efforts to content outside of Ethereum.org, with the three carefully chosen articles below:
- Phases of Ethereum 2.0 by EthHub: German, Brazilian PortugueseKorean, Arabic, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish
- On collusion by Vitalik Buterin: German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish
- By the way, how does Ethereum work? by Preethi Kasireddy: German, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese
We were thrilled to be able to offer this great content in additional languages. But for now, we’re going to focus on lots of new content coming to ethereum.org. If you’re already working on content for this ecosystem, don’t worry! We’ll be happy to upload it as soon as you’re done.
Join our program
We are very proud of our recent milestones and look forward to serving more global communities by adding more languages in the future. As always, a huge thank you to all the volunteers who gave their time and energy to support this program. If you are not already part of the program and are interested in participating, come join us here! 🦄
Special thanks to Joseph Schweitzer for his excellent comments and to inlak16 for the incredible entertainment of the celebration.
