I propose an option on the side of the page that asks whether or not to translate the posts into english. The google translator is fairly effective and a lot of the russian posts I have looked at have bee very good(at least as good as they can be in. A slighty mangled state).
Tom Tobin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Arien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> The Django community aggregator includes non-English posts, which are > >> unfortunately pure noise for those of us who don't understand other > >> languages. Can we either restrict the aggregator to English posts, or > >> at least create sub-feeds for English and non-English posts? > >> > >> I don't mean to tread on the toes of those making non-English posts, > >> but English is the lingua franca of most open-source development > >> (including Django); non-English posts are of dubious usefulness to the > >> Django community at-large. [...] > > > > -0 on the general idea and that last sentence is plain false: > > > > http://www.jacobian.org/writing/2008/jan/30/arc/ > > Is it? The one language Django developers *around the world* are most > likely to have *in common* is ... English. The language used in > common for open-source developers from Brazil to Bulgaria is ... > English. I'm *not* saying Django shouldn't support local languages or > Unicode (which was the point of contention in that post)! I'm saying > that *for the community as a whole*, English is how we all communicate > with one another, and that an aggregator for that community at-large > should contain English posts. > > Maybe non-English posts should go into a separate, secondary feed; > maybe we should have a feed per language, as well as a > language-agnostic "firehose" feed. Having *only* a firehose feed, as > we do now, is a problem. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
