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WordPress now at 70 languages, and counting

November 26, 2014November 26, 2014 by John Yunker

This blog has been hosted on WordPress since 2002. Since then, WordPress has grown into one of the dominant publishing platforms on the Internet. And one of the most multilingual as well, with strong support for 53 locales and limited …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Languages, Software Localization, Translation

Wikipedia and the Internet language chasm

April 7, 2014 by John Yunker

When talking about language diversity across the Internet, I like to include a visual that illustrates the language leaders of the Internet: This chart is based on data from the 2014 Web Globalization Report Card. English (US) is not counted. …

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Categories Business globalization, Crowdsourcing, Global By Design, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

WhatsApp: Another “translation worthy” success story

February 22, 2014February 20, 2014 by John Yunker

I wrote recently that if you can make your product “translation worthy” the world will follow. Reading about Facebook’s purchase of WhatsApp I went back and did some language crunching. In December 2012, WhatsApp supported 15 languages. I also noted …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Languages, Software Localization, Translation, Web Globalization

Make your product “translation worthy” and the world will follow

February 10, 2014January 16, 2014 by John Yunker

From my guest post for Gigaom: When a software company asks me if I think its new product will succeed globally, I typically respond by asking: Is your product translation worthy? In other words, are people eager to voluntary translate …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Software Localization, Web Globalization

Measuring translation quality: A Q&A with TAUS founder Jaap van der Meer

May 12, 2017November 15, 2013 by John Yunker

Every translation vendor offers the highest-quality translations. Or so they say. But how do you know for sure that one translation is better than another translation? And, for that matter, how do you fairly benchmark machine translation engines? TAUS has …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Machine Translation, Transcreation, Translation

Listen to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in 53 languages)

August 26, 2012 by John Yunker

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been translated into 370 languages Here’s the full list. But if you’re less into reading and more into listening, the folks at SoundCloud have recruited volunteers to record the declaration. Here’s Hungarian: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/30494626″ …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Languages

The Khan Academy and the kindness of translators

February 16, 2012 by John Yunker

The Khan Academy is out to revolutionize education by providing a free online education through lots and lots of well-produced videos. A core component of this revolution is the subtitling these 2,700 videos (and counting) into many languages. To get …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Translation

Twitter launches translation crowdsourcing, again

February 14, 2011 by John Yunker

Twitter went live with its newly updated translation center today. This is the second iteration of the platform; it first launched in October 2009, but was closed less than a year after for an overhaul. I gave it a quick …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Software Localization, Twitter

Adobe launches translation crowdsourcing in China

May 10, 2010 by John Yunker

Facebook has demonstrated that you can crowdsource translations with high quality and rapid turnaround, leading many other companies to ask how they too can leverage the crowd to translate their content. Enter Adobe and Lingotek. Adobe has recently begun leveraging …

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Categories China, Crowdsourcing

Is Google the best machine translation engine? It depends…

March 11, 2010 by John Yunker

Two weeks ago, I introduced Ethan Shen and his project to analyze the three major free machine translation (MT) engines — Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Babelfish — by relying on translator reviews. Ethan has provided me with a mid-point summary …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Google, Machine Translation, Microsoft
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