Translation Goals app overview

Crowdsourcing translations is a great way to make products multilingual. Crowdsourcing is a #1 choice for open source projects and non-profits, and it is often a choice for commercial projects, such as games.

There are few reasons why commercial projects would ask their communities to help with localization:

• End users are always the best translators. Even the most experienced professional translators may not have as much context as the gamer who spent hours playing the game.
• The crowd can be large and provide incredible translation speed for new content. Whenever you add new text to your projects, it can be translated and released within hours.
• Crowd would create the best translations for itself by voting on the translation of a particular screen, ensuring that this translation works best for the end user.
• Companies want to keep their communities engaged, and end users of your project may want to contribute to the project they love.

Crowdin has seen AAA games crowdsource their translations with 35,000 volunteers in 160+ languages with unbelievable success.

However, managing a crowdsourcing project can be a challenge for the manager running it. Manager might have such typical questions:

• How many volunteers do I need?
• How do I reward volunteer translators and keep the team motivated?

This application addresses those problems. With this app, you can set a goal of how many translations you expect a volunteer to translate, and the app would suggest how many contributors you as a manager should find. On the other hand, the volunteers know exactly what they are expected to contribute and will work towards the goal.

As for rewards, for now you can pay volunteers via Metamask, use the report provided by the app to give your own rewards (if you are localizing a game, you can give rare artifacts or badges or anything valuable to contributors).

Setting up the Translation Goals app

After installing the application, you will find it in your project Tools section.

Manager view

The manager should create a goal and add users who will translate content.

Contributor view