Translating LHCb's Documentation: First experiences and ensuring maintenance
Abstract
The Starterkit Lessons online and Starterkit Workshops held in Geneva each year have been the main method of onboarding newcomers to the LHCb experiment since its founding in 2015. The new software corresponding to Upgrade 1 of the LHCb and Run 3 of datataking at the LHC has necessitated a new version of this Starterkit to be written. This new version has made several improvements over the old one, with increased maintainability through testing of examples in CI pipelines, and has also allowed for translations of the Starterkit Lessons. In late 2025 the Run 3 Starterkit lessons were translated into Mandarin Chinese, to allow for a sibling Starterkit event to take place in China, with a dedicated liaison role set up to ensure synchronization between the two translations. To measure the success of the Chinese Starterkit Lessons, analytics have been added revealing that roughly 22% of all visits to the Starterkit website will access at least one Chinese-language page.
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BibTeX
@misc{morris2026translating,
title = {{Translating LHCb's Documentation: First experiences and ensuring maintenance}},
author = {Andy Morris and Zhijie Wang and Xuhao Yuan and Yisheng Fu and George Hallett and Jingqi He and Kai Liu and Jiayu Zhao and Xiaokang Zhou},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.35830},
eprint = {2609.35830},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35830},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Translating LHCb's Documentation: First experiences and ensuring maintenance
AU - Andy Morris
AU - Zhijie Wang
AU - Xuhao Yuan
AU - Yisheng Fu
AU - George Hallett
AU - Jingqi He
AU - Kai Liu
AU - Jiayu Zhao
AU - Xiaokang Zhou
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.35830
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35830
AB - The Starterkit Lessons online and Starterkit Workshops held in Geneva each year have been the main method of onboarding newcomers to the LHCb experiment since its founding in 2015. The new software corresponding to Upgrade 1 of the LHCb and Run 3 of datataking at the LHC has necessitated a new version of this Starterkit to be written. This new version has made several improvements over the old one, with increased maintainability through testing of examples in CI pipelines, and has also allowed for translations of the Starterkit Lessons. In late 2025 the Run 3 Starterkit lessons were translated into Mandarin Chinese, to allow for a sibling Starterkit event to take place in China, with a dedicated liaison role set up to ensure synchronization between the two translations. To measure the success of the Chinese Starterkit Lessons, analytics have been added revealing that roughly 22% of all visits to the Starterkit website will access at least one Chinese-language page.
ER -