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xitu/gold-miner

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34,315Audience · developerComplexity · 1/5Setup · easy

TLDR

A community-run catalog of thousands of English technical articles translated into Chinese, plus a coordination hub for volunteer translators.

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    What it does
      Translated articles
      Topic index
      Community hub
    Content areas
      AI and ML
      Frontend dev
      Backend dev
      Mobile apps
      Design
    How to use
      Browse translations
      Contribute translations
      Peer review
    Audience
      Chinese developers
      Volunteer translators
      Technical readers
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Find Chinese translations of English technical articles, tutorials, and official documentation on topics like AI, frontend, backend, and mobile development.

USE CASE 2

Contribute by translating new English technical articles into Chinese and submitting them for peer review.

USE CASE 3

Coordinate with other volunteer translators, propose articles to translate, and review translations before publication.

How does it compare?

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LanguagePython
Setup difficultyeasyeasyhard
Complexity1/51/54/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
License could not be detected automatically. Check the repository's LICENSE file before use.

In plain English

Gold Miner is a community translation project run by Juejin, one of China's largest developer communities. The problem it addresses is that many high-quality technical articles, tutorials, and official documentation are written in English and not accessible to Chinese-speaking developers without translation. Gold Miner organizes a volunteer community to translate these materials into Chinese and publish them on the Juejin platform. The repository itself is not runnable code, it has no primary programming language. Instead it is a curated index of completed and in-progress translations. The README and linked Markdown files catalog thousands of translated articles organized by topic: artificial intelligence and machine learning, Android development, iOS and Swift, frontend JavaScript and React, backend engineering, product design, blockchain, algorithms, and more. It also links to fully translated official documentation sets, such as the TensorFlow documentation and a JavaScript tutorial series. Contributors follow a workflow documented in the repository's wiki, proposing articles to translate, submitting translated text as pull requests, and peer-reviewing each other's translations before publication. The repository serves two purposes simultaneously: a public catalog of translated content that readers can browse, and the operational coordination hub for an ongoing translation community. With over 4,000 translated articles and more than 1,500 contributor translators recorded, it represents one of the largest sustained efforts to make English-language technical content available in Chinese. You would visit this repository if you are a Chinese-speaking developer looking for translated versions of technical articles, or if you want to contribute to the translation community by taking on new articles in your area of expertise.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I'm a Chinese developer looking for translated versions of technical articles on machine learning. How do I browse the Gold Miner repository to find them?
Prompt 2
I want to contribute translations to Gold Miner. What's the workflow for proposing an article, submitting a translation, and getting it reviewed?
Prompt 3
Show me how to find translated documentation for TensorFlow or JavaScript tutorials in the Gold Miner repository.
Prompt 4
I found an English article on React that I'd like to translate into Chinese for the Gold Miner community. What are the steps to submit my translation?

Frequently asked questions

What is gold-miner?

A community-run catalog of thousands of English technical articles translated into Chinese, plus a coordination hub for volunteer translators.

What license does gold-miner use?

License could not be detected automatically. Check the repository's LICENSE file before use.

How hard is gold-miner to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is gold-miner for?

Mainly developer.

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