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Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
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Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#12I'd be interested to know if this means I should start searching both sites when looking for answers (or how that issue is going to be solved). Should I have accounts on both so I can upvote answers? My Spanish certainly doesn't qualify me to answer questions in Portuguese; Reading, however, is a better prospect.
It seems interesting that this is so separated from the main Q&A database of questions when so much of the information is easily accessible with tools like Google Translate and knowledge of similar languages (Spanish, for example).
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#13I can't imagine ever searching for a solution to a problem in Portuguese. I never google in Portuguese, ever. Content quality is just abismal.
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#14I wonder why they made it into a totally separate site. I think it would be nice if it could share the same favourite tags as the english version or if I could browse both languages in a single page.
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#16Weird there's no number for Russia on the map. I thought SO scores a lot of Russian visitors (many of whom satisfy those two criteria).
According to [1] and [2] Russian is still behind some other languages, i.e. Hindi, German and French. Seems that number of visitors is just one of the signals taken into account and not the main one.
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#17Great! Now do Japanese! (Or pull a reverse-Cookpad and professionally translate the best answers.)
I really agree with your second point... however probably having a second subdomain would help with SEO (how they probably get most of their visitors) instead of having popular questions translated into multiple languages.
I really fear if they have a bunch of subdomains and my question is answered in another language that it'll be a PITA to translate.. but I guess that's how non-english speakers feel too.
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#18From Google Translate:
> The basic questions - those that once plagued every programmer - have not yet been made. You can write a question or definitive answer that will help tens of thousands of programmers in the future. (Oh, and do not worry if your question is already on the site in English.'ll Build you a website just for developers who speak Portuguese no longer need to use English to learn new things!)
Why not just provide machine translated versions of the original English questions with option to improve the translation?
I think that creating a brand new site will just split the large SO community and won't achieve much. Especially since you drastically limit the audience willing/able to answer the question.
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#19I wonder why they chose Portugese. Unfortunately, I can't read the blog post. The map seems to indicate that the number of speakers is important, but that can't be it, there's many more Mandarin/Hindi/Arabic speakers. Does anybody have information on this?
Good point: Mandarin is clearly more spoken, and further from English, than Portuguese.
About Hindi: keep in mind that English is still an official Indian language, especially since the English Language Amendment Bill.
About Arabic: there are several kinds of Arabic, and not all are mutually intelligible. As a result, the number of people speaking it is a controversial figure... you can then compare the 200 million of native Portuguese speakers with the 280 million of native Modern Standard Arabic speakers.
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#20This is interesting, although most of my colleagues won't google problems in Portuguese.
As stated on the announcement:
Grande parte deles se sentisse muito mais confortável em falar sua própria língua do que o inglês
Most of them feel more comfortable speaking own language than english
Although english is a must be for a developer, there's a lot of people who can't even read.