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WordPress Translation Day recap

June 10, 2019 by John Yunker

Looks like the most recent WordPress Translation Day was a linguistic success. Here are the details from WP Tavern: Events in 35 countries (see map below) 183 new contributors 12 new global translation editors (GTEs) WordPress supports more than 200 …

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Categories Countries, Languages, Software Localization, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card, Wordpress, WordPress

WordPress Translation Day is coming

March 26, 2019 by John Yunker

Did you know that (US) English accounts for fewer than half of all WordPress interfaces currently in use? As you can see below, courtesy of WordPress, English still technically accounts for more than half when you include Australia, Canada, etc, …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Culture, Languages, Mobile, Software Localization, Translation, Web Globalization, WordPress, Wordpress

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

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

TED is translation-worthy

August 3, 2009 by John Yunker

Earlier this year, TED began recruiting volunteers to translate its recorded presentations, known as TED Talks. It looks like the venture is off to a strong start. According to TED, more than 1,500 volunteer translators have provided more than 1,000 …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Languages, Translation, Web Globalization

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