{"id":2980,"date":"2019-12-20T20:43:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2019\/12\/20\/witnesses-website-beats-facebook-as-worlds-most-translated\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T08:42:58","slug":"witnesses-website-beats-facebook-as-worlds-most-translated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/witnesses-website-beats-facebook-as-worlds-most-translated\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 website beats Facebook as world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most translated"},"content":{"rendered":"

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan\u00e2\u20ac\u201dMove aside Facebook and Twitter. The record for most translated website belonged to JW.org, the official site of Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The religious website had been translated into 1,000 languages, beating Facebook and Twitter which have a combined user base of more than a billion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The languages to which JW.org was translated included 24 major and indigenous Philippine languages, according to John Yunker, author of 2019 The Web Globalization Report Card, which keeps track of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best global websites.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a statement, the Witnesses cited Yunker as saying JW.org was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ahead of the curve\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because it treated with great respect people who spoke languages not supported by Fortune 500, or the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s richest companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Even Facebook, with support for more than 100 languages, has a long way to go,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yunker said in a statement quoted by the Witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to Yunker, while JW.org is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153volunteer-driven\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it was able to outpace the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most popular crowdsourced website, Wikipedia, which has translations for only 280 languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He said commercial websites consider translating content to new languages if these languages would bring in revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses, though, profit is not the motive,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Yunker.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Their goal is to translate the Bible\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message so that it is accurate, clear, and easy for readers to benefit from,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan\u00e2\u20ac\u201dMove aside Facebook and Twitter. The record for most translated website belonged to JW.org, the official site of Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses. \u00a0 The religious website had been translated into 1,000 languages, beating Facebook and Twitter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5145,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/5145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}