Post about improvements in translations [deploy site]

Author: diemol

website_and_docs/content/blog/2021/docs-translations.md

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+title: "Improving & refining our Docs translations"
+linkTitle: "Improving & refining our Docs translations"
+date: 2021-12-03
+tags: ["selenium"]
+categories: ["general"]
+author: Diego Molina ([@diegofmolina](https://twitter.com/diegofmolina))
+description: >
+  We are refining our docs content with help from the community!
+---
+
+A while ago, we started to make the Selenium [documentation](/documentation) available in more 
+languages. This, in an effort to offer a more inclusive environment for Selenium users who do 
+not have English as their mother tongue.
+
+This effort grew organically, and we got many pull requests adding content for different 
+languages. Over time, some translations got to a very good state, and others didn't get much
+attention. This brought the situation where 9 different languages are available in the 
+documentation, but only a few add value to the readers.
+
+To understand which languages are getting visits, we started using 
+[Plausible](https://plausible.io). After a few weeks, we combined the information collected
+by the analytics tool with the translated percentage per language, and we got the following:
+
+Here's the number of visitors on the landing page for a given translation in the past 2 weeks,
+and the percent of documentation pages translated:
+
+| Language | Visitors | Translated |
+| --------- | ------- | ------- |
+| ja | 1,700 | 86% |
+| zh-cn | 1,500 | 86% |
+| es| 409 |  42% |
+| fr | 203 | 31% |
+| pt-br | 189 | 87% |
+| de | 88 | 65% |
+| ko | 79 | 68% |
+| nl | 22 | 6% |
+
+This shows that the most used languages (aside from English) are Japanese and Chinese, and that
+the language that has translated most of the content is Portuguese. 
+
+Based on this data, we decided to create a new role in the Selenium project: 
+[translators](/project/structure/#docs_site_translators). This role will help the project
+keep in shape the different translations available. Together with that, we are also putting
+on hold the other available translations until we find volunteers for each language.
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please reach out through any of all the available options 
+shown at our [support page](https://www.selenium.dev/support/).
+
+Stay tuned for updates by following [SeleniumHQ](https://twitter.com/seleniumhq)!
+
+Happy testing!
+
+