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International Translation Day is celebrated yearly on September 30th and celebrates the work of translators, interpreters and terminologists whose work breaks down language barriers.

At Moodle, we celebrate this day by acknowledging all volunteer translators who make our platform available in over 100 languages, including minority ones, and enable educators and learners across the globe to teach and learn using Moodle. Originally developed in English, the Moodle LMS interface has over 27,000 ‘language strings’ or phrases that have to be translated to make the software available in different languages. So, beyond translating the strings, there is a big coordination job involved, which is also undertaken by volunteer Moodlers.

One of these volunteers is Greek moodler Stamos Spiliotis, an ICT teacher in primary education who is very involved in the Greek Moodle community. Stamos has contributed to translating Moodle into Greek since 2018 and he is also a Language Pack maintainer…