Why the need of non-english discussions?
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[quote author="qtrahul" date="1293599574"]One suggestion : We can use Google Translate to convert any language in different one.[/quote]
It can be helpful, but it isn't really that good. Some time it messes up the meaning.
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[quote author="Luca" date="1293006598"]Hi all,
I'm an italian developer and sometimes my english has some errors but I think that writing in italian deny non-italian users to understand it.Now I see a lot of topic in a lot of languages that I can't understand. In this way I can't support then discussion or I can't be helped by the discussion .
What do you think about?[/quote]
In my opinion, there are "cons" and "pros" from the existence of non-english "sub-forums" in the forum. One positive aspect is that more not fluent english speakers will join the forum. :)
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[quote author="QtK" date="1293610466"]
[quote author="qtrahul" date="1293599574"]One suggestion : We can use Google Translate to convert any language in different one.[/quote]It can be helpful, but it isn't really that good. Some time it messes up the meaning.[/quote]
I agree with QtK! It is a good tool, but one has to be very cautious about how they will interpret the results of the translation.
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Also if the solution was that easy - Alexandra won't get to do "fishing":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/blog/view/done_fishing. Also translators won't get those cool t-shirts.
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Volker is right, there are non-English stuff only in the regional forums, which is right, everywhere else there is only and just English content in the forum. As it is said in the "Tagging wiki":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Tagging everyone should tag with "language:code" every non-English material, so it's already filtered out. It's just a little scripting no to hide it from the new posts, I don't get really this big problem about this...
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[quote author="lrazo" date="1293586641"]However I think that there are people not interested in regional issues so, maybe they are not interesting for readers of other countries, for example a discussion in Russian about how to receive the Nokia's OVI store payments in Russia describing all the legal issues and taxes features. If you're living outside Russia maybe you won't be interested at all in these kind of regional topics.[/quote]
The Trolls already take care of this problem, see Marius' answer on page one of this thread! Did you read it? It is already agreed upon! And now give them some time to implement things, please!
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Back on topic, here is an interesting perspective on our reliance on English, this infographic is from http://thenextweb.com/asia/2010/12/21/chinese-the-new-dominant-language-of-the-internet-infographic/
Qt is big in China, we have a "dedicated office":http://qt.nokia.com/about/nokia-qt-offices and a dedicated "Qt community site":http://qt.csdn.net/ there. If I were going to learn a new language I would seriously consider Chinese. :)
!http://thenextweb.com/asia/files/2010/12/TNW_internetlanguages_vs4.jpeg(infographic)!
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@_mariusg_: very interesting graph. Thanks for sharing.