Language Forums

Hmm i dont know if this suggestion could work.. but then again i know it would help alot of user's who dont know english. I have alot of friends.. who are not fluent in speaking/reading in english, while they are searching all day for a forum that supports there language... i on the other hand have devshed. I think tha dev should support certain language's to help other's in need.

Not a bad idea, but it would require work - a lot of work.

1. Crew for languageforums (and believe me, that really is a problem... I worked for a long time on quite a big multilingual forum... Controlling what a mod does is not always easy, and while well working multilingual section could improve the popularity, one bad mod can really do a severe damage to a sites reputation. ...not to mention a bad admins... (which is another thing tho. ) And always it is not just the bad mod, sometimes forums just turn ugly if they are not under quite a strict controll...

2. restructurizing these forums.
IMO that is already needed. I do not mean to offend the designer of this site, but the forums home is awfully messy for newbie.. There's already way too many forums, considering the clarity of the site. Perhaps somekind of subforum system would be good, but that requires some work from admins to accomplish...

actualy i dont think it would require any work.. just creating the forum, for only spanish or etc speaking users... or creating a forum for all languages support.

Problem is, there would have to be a mod fluent in each language for
each forum...

I'm only fluent in English and Nonsense.

I'd be happy to mod a Spanish forum.

(Me gustaría ayudar con un foro Español. )

Yo puedo hacer lo mismo (I can do the same).

Aussi, je peux aider les membre francais (Also, I can help the french members). Though, my french isn't that good, but I can get by.

so would i

It's never really a problem to find a mod... Usually theres plenty of volunteers, but admins usually do want to see what mods are doing. When there's forums with languages the admin(s) do not speak, it's quite hard. And no, I do not claim some of you would do a bad mod. I just know that sometimes there really are crappy mods, and usually admins deal with them as quickly as possible... But when admin do not know what reads in posts, it's hard for him to judge mods actions. Therefor selecting a mod to languageforums is not easy.

Another point that must be considered is that if you create one languageforum, there will certainly be requests for others. And as example: if you allow spanish to have own corner, but deny the corner from french, french will probs be unhappy & consider it not fair. And when members consider something unfair, that will always reflect to the posts & attitudes, which will have immediate affect on quality of the forums.

So there really is 2 options:
1. one multilingual forum for all languages -> mod problem.
2. several forums for most used languages. (which still requires work.)

Disclaimer:
No one needs to believe what I say about this matter (or any other matter), I have just happened to gone through that.. Feel free to ignore my opinion, I just love it when I can afterwards say "I told it to you!"

Although I think this is a good idea, I think it would be very hard to implement.

I couldn't help much - I only knew German and that's very, very rusty at the mo !

I could do a Polish forum if the need arises. My French isn't too shabby either, and my German is fluent. Just PM me if you happen to need me.

I could do german particularly well and french to a reasonable standard, if we did go ahead with this. I'm thinking perhaps have one forum for other languages where there is some sort of tagging system, like the poster selects a language from a list and it adds the short language extension to the beginning, eg.

[FR] PHP MySQL erreur

etc.

If someone wants to put up a poll and if there seems to be a majority vote on it we will get it done

J

Word of caution, different langauges invariably mean different cultures and temperaments, any mods would need to be acutely aware of this in advance

Just my €0.02

I don't agree with this idea, stay with english (even if it's not my native language).