Facebook Adds Awards To Keep Translators Translating

Last night Facebook announced that they would be upgrading their Translations application to include an awards feature to reward top translators. The gaming techniques are similar to those employed by the team behind Causes, the third largest application on the Facebook Platform. With over 300,000 users translating via the system and over 70 languages now available on Facebook, it’s important that translators continue using the system.

The most important reason is that applications still rely on translators using the Translations application in order to internationalize their own applications.