Crowdsourcing translation under translational eco-environment of Web 2.0

With the appearing of Web 2.0 concept, Internet users begin to learn, work, and jointly create information and culture on an online interactive platform. Translation industry also utilizes this platform, which creates crowdsourcing translation. With the help of this platform, crowdsourcing translation websites emerge and provide every translator with a chance to participate in article or book translation projects. The author of this paper adopts eco-translatology theory to study crowdsourcing translation and puts it under the new translational eco-environment of Web 2.0 to discuss its operation features.