Detailed Plan
Blockchain data should be available to the whole Cardano community regardless of what native language the community members use and understand. Our Cardano BlockchainIntelligence (BI) solution already supports most global languages. A user from Japan can search for metadata containing Japanese symbols using our metadata search https://bi.stakepoolcentral.com/tx_metadata_search, and will be presented with search hits / messages according to this.
However we at CENT do not know all languages, and we therefore need support from the Cardano community to translate the site labels and description in the user interface so the site can be read by community members in their native language.
As can be seen in attached data on global usage, you can see the site is used from all over the world, but the vast majority of our users are English speaking. We want to support more languages so users that do not know English still can get access to the Cardano Blockchain data.
To support this, we need to do some rebuilding of the site to allow the community to request new languages
CENT therefore asks Catalyst for funding of the following changes and additions
- Rebuild user interface of complete site <https://bi.stakepoolcentral.com> to display labels and descriptions in a good way wether they are Spanish, Chinese or Arabic
- Create functionality to let users set their preferred site language and that the setting is remembered between site visits
- Add functionality so links shared include site language and by this putting users in control how the content they share is displayed when opened
- Mechanism to let community members propose and vote for new languages to be added
- Mechanism for allowing community translators to register contact e-mail and language they can translate for the site. All translators will be credited in a special "Site translators" page
- Help resources in native languages
Expectation is that this proposal will be delivered to the community within 3 months after proposal funding is secured by Catalyst voters
