About 85% of the almost 50,000 Rogue Scholar blog posts are written in English, while German, Spanish and French are the most popular languages other than English – for example more than 5,000 German-language blog posts have been archived.

The language is automatically detected by the browser, but can also be manually changed in the Rogue Scholar footer:

The ten languages used in Rogue Scholar blog posts plus five languages where most of the InvenioRDM user interface (the repository platform that powers Rogue Scholar) has been translated can be selected.

This week the following homepage areas have been translated into German, Spanish and French:

  • frontpage header
  • frontpage sidebar
  • footer

In addition, the frontpage now shows the most recent publications into the selected language – you can of course always search for content in any language.

Also this week, Rogue Scholar started a weekly newsletter of newly published blog posts in German, Spanish or French, you can sign up here.

With these changes much of Rogue Scholar is now available in multiple languages, especially useful for users who are not comfortable searching and reading content in English. And the architecture changes make it easy to add additional languages going forward.

Membership Interest Form

This is a reminder that work on Rogue Scholar becoming a German non-profit organization in 2026 is slowly progressing. While we work on the legal documents needed to register as a German non-profit, you can express your interest in joining Rogue Scholar as an individual or organization via a form link (Membership Interest Form) from the footer of every Rogue Scholar page.

Please use Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments, in particular with regards to translations in Rogue Scholar.

Rogue Scholar is a scholarly infrastructure that is free for all authors and readers. You can support Rogue Scholar with a one-time or recurring donation or by becoming a sponsor.

References

  1. Fenner, M. (2023, September 4). New in Rogue Scholar: Filter posts by language. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/ggtnh-1as93
  2. Fenner, M. (2025, November 3). Rogue Scholar is becoming a German Non-Profit Organization. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/rftfk-qv692