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Dec 02, 2016 at 08:53 PM

How are different languages on SCN working out for you?

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Instead of continuing an argument on Idea Place I thought I'd post a question here to pick the collective SCN mind.

There seem to be a lot of confusion regarding non-English content on SCN. On one hand, the non-English users are struggling with how to post or find content in their language (Exhibit A just from the top of Q&A list, there are others).

At the same time, those who speak only English from the list of SCN-supported languages are now seeing items like this (this is from ABAP Q&A):

From what I see, status quo is not really working for anyone (personally, I'm getting annoyed by scrolling through German or Chinese blogs all the time, no disrespect). And while for the English speakers this could be easily solved by adding a filter, I'm afraid that would just cast all the non-English content into obscurity.

One of the factors mentioned in the Idea Place was moderation. Since now moderator is assigned to a tag, to facilitate languages one would need a Spanish, Chinese, etc. speaking person in every single tag. Which is, of course, unrealistic (not sure why no one thought about this when making a design decision).

All things considered, I believe it would've made more sense to convert language-specific spaces to their own tags instead of adding language on top of the tags as an attribute. In this way only one moderator is needed and also other-speaking folks would continue to stay warm and cozy in their own designated spots.

What are your thoughts on the new language concept?

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