[J_cst]

I am Italian and can confirm that the translation is perfectly fine. At the very beginning of the translation, in italics, the translator states that he follows Endeavour because on that blog he finds interesting articles about statistics and programming. After that he gives full credit to the author and back links the original post. To me there's nothing of suspicious or malicious.

[rspeer]

I'm glad that this is a good example of a translation, and not a trick.

I still think that if a blog post author says "this is a translation of my post", the author should host it as a sibling page on their own server. That allows them to more reliably vouch for its content, and removes an avenue that can be used for trickery.