The Utopian.io team is happy to announce the relaunch of the translations category! We’re looking forward to incentivizing the localization of Open Source projects via Crowdin by our international community of contributors who’ve been patiently (but eagerly) waiting for the translations category to be made available.
From its inception, the translations category was the most active category on Utopian.io. This is unsurprising considering the global and multinational nature of the Steem blockchain. The sheer volume and diversity in contributions made it impossible to moderate while maintaining a standard of quality to be of value to FOSS projects. For that reason, we were forced to pause activity in that category.
After months of intensive planning, negotiating, and reiterating the guidelines and procedures for the category, we are finally ready to resume incentivizing top quality translations submitted to FOSS projects via the CrowdIn translation platform. We hope this will help engage the diverse and multinational community of professional translations already on Utopian.io, as well as attract new translation professionals to the Steem blockchain and Utopian.io.
Collaboration with The Davinci Initiative
Part of the Utopian.io mission is supporting initiatives that bring value to innovation on the Steem blockchain and beyond it. We do so by using the power entrusted with us by our sponsors to grow the number of curators committed to our mission.
With that in mind, and with the need for a professional and scalable solution to the issue of the translation category moderation, Utopian.io has entered a collaboration with the DaVinci Localization Curation Initiative.
Meet DaVinci
DaVinci is a curation initiative (and Steem community witness) aimed to provide quality translations to valuable content posted to the Steem blockchain. Comprised of a team of professional translations, and managed with well structured organizational hierarchy, the DaVinci team will have full ownership of the management of the translations category of Utopian.io. This includes on-boarding verified translators, managing moderation and scoring the translations made via the CrowdIn platform by Utopian.io contributors.
The team at DaVinci are being onboarded and guided on Utopian.io workflows and policies, and are being equipped with all the tools and resources necessary to make this collaboration a success on all fronts.
Want to become a translator with Utopian & DaVinci? Here’s How!
Unlike the previous translations workflow on Utopian.io, the new workflow will require whitelisting and pre-approval of all translators whose contributions may be considered for reward.
To ensure everyone is rewarded fairly, DaVinci employs a unique rewarding system that splits the beneficiary rewards between Utopian.io (5%) and the DaVinci initiative (10%).
To get whitelisted with Utopian.io and DaVinci as a pre-approved translator, you should apply on the DaVinci Discord server.
Languages Accepted (more languages will be added in the next weeks):
Spanish |
German |
Chinese |
Italian |
Greek |
Utopian.io Category Rewards
Valid translations submitted via CrowdIn and posted on Utopian.io, will enter the queue to receive an upvote from @utopian-io according to the score assigned by DaVinci moderators. The maximum voting cap for the category is set at 25%.
To ensure the reviews are transparent, fair and the reward is proportional to effort and quality, the DaVinci team were provided a customized scoring system developed by Utopian in coordination with the core team at DaVinci.
Submissions Opening!
The DaVinci team will start reviewing your applications immediately. Actual contributions in the category are scheduled to be started on 17th of June 2018!
Get Translating!
As soon as your application is accepted by the DaVinci initiative team, you can start translating your favorite FOSS projects with CrowdIn and submitting them to Utopian.io for potential reward. To enable that, we’ve published https://davinci.utopian.io, an editor based on the awesome Busy.org one, that will allow you to do just that.
Get in touch with DaVinci Discord server right now and let’s localize some awesome Open Source projects!
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We are happy to be able to work with the @utopian-io organization, it is an honor for us to have received the trust of @elear and his team. We are waiting on our server discord to organize the start of the project, you are many and this gives us great pleasure. A short presentation post will also be out soon.
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This is great news! I might apply for translating some open source projects once you add Norwegian to the list :)
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I hope Indonesia language will be added as soon as possible :)
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I'm happy to see this category online once more! It got closed when i tried to contribute for the first time ( how lucky i'm, no? haha ). But i wish to see my language ( persian ) in the list to start what i do best :)
Best regards utopian
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We are happy as well. We look forward seeing much more languages on the list so that more contributors can join.
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Mosr awaited catagory. Nice to hear.Longing for
urdu
urdu
urdu
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Hope to see URDU in the list of accepted languages soon.
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After months, finally @utopian-io returned with translation category.
We will try to learn it.
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I love translate, it's a hobby for me, thank you Utopian for reward the persons than contribute to the Open Source proyects ^^
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Finally! Good news for all translators.
Waiting to see Russian and Ukrainian language in the list;-)
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Great!! :D I've been waiting for this. Thank you @utopian-io!!
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Very great news coming from @utopian-io! People have been waiting for this, hopefully more and more languages would be added. Great job @utopian-io!
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Yeah! We will have a lot of new languages in the next weeks :) Thank you!
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Great! Without a doubt, it will be of great help to many. great idea @autopian-io.
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Very cool to see this coming back in an interesting way. Kind of wish I spoke one of the languages, maybe in the future you guys can add Japanese.
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We hope in that as well. The list is short for now but it will be expanded certainly in the future.
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Plz add Urdu language
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Nice to hear the translation section has been reopened. I have been waiting patiently, yet eagerly for this!. I'll be applying to be whitelisted on the DaVinci server asap :-)
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I believe you were not the only one. The break lasted for a long time, so let's hope it will all work as we all hope and expect.
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Utopian Goodjob!
Even though I have been removed from you
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Waiting For Urdu
Great job Utopian-io
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Nice work! I am Portuguese but don´t know anything about programming. Is there anyway i can help with my skills? Maybe adding Portuguese to de sub categories!?...
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All information will be given in the DaVinci Discord server. The list of languages has grown rapidly since the announcement.
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Could you send me the link to discord?
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The link is in the post.
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Thanks. Already in!
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Glad and Happy to see translation back again on the platform of Utopian.
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Good news, translation will soon be back. First, you have to join the DaVinci Discord Server . For Chinese, join the Chinese-Team.
首先,您必须加入DaVinci Discord Server。对于中文翻译员,请於chinese-team留言。
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That's great! I hope to work with you guys when Dutch will be added to the languages...
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Hoping for tagalog/filipino and cebuano languages will be added soon.. 😇
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Even if there is not my native language on the board, this is the news of the season...God!! you blessed us under the utupia 's sky!. Wish to see Turkish on the accepted translation languages list.
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Hello dear @utopian-io, I am a professinal translator and very ready to contribute in this project...
If you want to know some of my bio, please just read the link below. In the post i mentioned some of books i have translated into Bahasa Indonesia....:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@zaimrofiqi/let-me-introduce-my-self-izinkan-saya-memperkenalkan-diri-bilingual-69a19af8c6dac
Thanks and have a lovely day...☕☕❤
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French is the fourth spoken language in the world after English, Chinese and Spanish and before German and Italian ;) Hope French will soon join the Utopian+DaVinci project for translation !
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