Crowdin
Crowdin – web-based localization management platform designed to help developers and their teams make products they develop multilingual. Including web, mobile, desktop apps, games, support documentation, and more.[1]
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Company history
Crowdin was founded in 2008 by Serhiy Dmytryshyn and the platform was launched in January 2009. At first, Crowdin started as a hobby project, aimed to automate localization for developers. As software products are often updated and keeping all the texts for translation up-to-date manually was a difficult and time-consuming task. With automation, developers could get all of the text strings in their product translated with no need to add each text string manually as opposed to using spreadsheets when working with translators.
On August 07, 2014 company officially released Crowdin out of beta.
In August 2015, Crowdin reached more than 50, 000 registered users.
As of July 2017, Crowdin claims to have more than 1, 000, 000 registered users.
September 2017, the product is added to GitHub Marketplace. [2]
API & Integrations
Integrations
Crowdin integrates with several tools to automate the file sync and simplify some of the repetitive and manual tasks. The following integrations are supported:
hosting services for version control using Git – GitHub[3], GitLab[4], Bitbucket
issue tracking product – Jira
integrated development environment (IDE) – Android Studio
digital distribution service – Google Play
API
Crowdin provides RESTful API, allowing users to programmatically create automations within Crowdin and customize Crowdin to the unique way their teams work.
The available API methods, allow creating projects in Crowdin, adding and updating files, downloading translations or integrating localization with other tools.
Console Client (CLI)
Crowdin CLI is a command line tool that allows users to manage and synchronize localization resources with their Crowdin projects.[5]
This is a cross-platform and it runs in a terminal on Linux based and macOS operating systems or in Command Prompt on Windows. It’s also open-source and it’s source code available on GitHub.
Translation strategies
With Crowdin the following 3 translation strategies or their combinations can be adopted:
- Your own translation team. Invite in-house translators or a trusted translation agency to help with translations in Crowdin.
- Professional translation agencies. Crowdin cooperates with several translation agencies already experienced to work within Crowdin. They are listed in the Project Settings under the Vendors tab and are ready to provide their translation services for an additional cost. The following agencies are listed: Inlingo, Alconost[6], Applingua, Babble-on, Gengo, Tomedes, Translated, Translate by Humans, WritePath, Farsi Translation Services, Bureau Translations, e2f, Web-lingo, Leanlane, and Acclaro.
- Crowdsourcing. Invite product's community to help with translations[7].[8][9]
Customers
The total number of registered users as of July 2017 counts over 1, 000, 000. Among them are tech companies, localization managers, translation agencies, and translators.
Among the companies using Crowdin are Xiaomi, XDAdevelopers, Raspberry Pi Foundation, JetBrains, Reddit, Uridu[10], Khan Academy, Maxthon, Ask.fm, PrestaShop, Joomla, Wrike, Kickstarter, Deutsche Welle, and more.
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