Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 10, 2004 Posted March 10, 2004 Perhaps you could add a section of the forum that could be for those non-english speaking among us. You could advertise it on the front page so they wouldn't be turned away by all the English. And if you are wondering how to moderate it, you might just recruit multi-lingual members to moderate it. I think this is a great way to have more members and let more people use this site, 'specially since it's better than the other ones I've seen.
Sayonara Posted March 10, 2004 Posted March 10, 2004 That's a good idea, seeing as we have lots of non-English members and no real language policy to speak of.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 10, 2004 Author Posted March 10, 2004 Perhaps you'd do just smaller forums for them, basics, like "general discussion," "mathematics," "astronomy," and that sort. You don't want to spend too much forum space, since English is the primary part. We'll have to get Blike or Faf over here to see this.
fafalone Posted March 11, 2004 Posted March 11, 2004 vBulletin does include some support for multilingual sites. I speak French fluently, I don't know how good blike is with Spanish. We'd need speakers on board before we could start it tho.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 11, 2004 Author Posted March 11, 2004 I bet a bunch of people around here are multi-lingual. As long as they're nice people you can make them mods on that part. My brother knows lots of spanish, he could tell me what they meant.
fafalone Posted March 11, 2004 Posted March 11, 2004 Yeah, you're a Mexican claiming minority status for med school admissions... logic inexorably points to you knowing Spanish
YT2095 Posted March 11, 2004 Posted March 11, 2004 I`de be prepared to do SOME of the Russian language, but I wouldn`t say I was 100% "fluent", I can chat (and do), I can read, write and speak it, but I`m NOT a great conversationalist
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 14, 2004 Author Posted March 14, 2004 So do you think you can impliment it? I'd like to see a section like that, though if you're upgrading to VB3 soon, I'd wait, it might have more support for multi-lingual things.
alt_f13 Posted March 24, 2004 Posted March 24, 2004 An international cooking section would also be beneficial. It might help with the "dates" part.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted May 27, 2004 Author Posted May 27, 2004 Now that you've upgraded, have you decided to make one? I think it would certainly bring in a lot of members...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted July 18, 2004 Author Posted July 18, 2004 ...considering that English is only the 4th most spoken language...
JaKiri Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 ...considering that English is only the 4th most spoken language... It's almost certainly the most spoken on the internet, even if your statistic is true.
atinymonkey Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 It's the third, after Mandarin and Spanish. Apparently.
atinymonkey Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Well I suppose if you discount everyone who used a regional derision of English (Americanese, South African English) you are probably right. I swear South Africans just insert Afrikaan words into sentences just to watch the reaction. You just stand there for a bit trying to work out if you misheard them, or the middle of the sentence really was gibberish.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted July 19, 2004 Author Posted July 19, 2004 But this is beyond the point. The question is, will it get implimented? I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make the forum for it, but the hard part is finding the people to moderate it. It just takes some more organization to get it all together, not much, really.
blike Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 I really can't see the purpose of it. 99.9% of members speak enough english to communicate, and the ones that can't usually are from some country that no one else knows the language for.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted July 19, 2004 Author Posted July 19, 2004 "speak enough english to communicate" doesn't always mean they can very well. Even if you don't want to make a big section of the forum for it, you could at least make one board for those who would like to speak some other language since they don't know English well. It could get rather confusing if they tried to explain in english but they couldn't. What I mean is that you have a bit with, say, a spanish mod and a french mod, and just let people go and post if they don't know how to put it in english.
JaKiri Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 What I mean is that you have a bit with, say, a spanish mod and a french mod, and just let people go and post if they don't know how to put it in english. The difficulty is finding a spanish mod and a french mod.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted July 19, 2004 Author Posted July 19, 2004 Faf says he know French... so I suppose in our 1800 and some members there's probably quite a few people that can speak good spanish. Or even some spaniards themselves.
JaKiri Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Faf says he know French... so I suppose in our 1800 and some members there's probably quite a few people that can speak good spanish.Or even some spaniards themselves. How many of them do we want to become mods, though.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted July 19, 2004 Author Posted July 19, 2004 Right... couldn't they just mod the international section? Then you wouldn't have a mod running amok destroying the forums...
JaKiri Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Right... couldn't they just mod the international section? Then you wouldn't have a mod running amok destroying the forums... It's fairly pointless putting someone in charge of a section which is just as, if not more, representative of the forum than any other given forum if you can't trust them.
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