|
In a large international community, it is important to be able to ask and answer questions in various languages as not everyone speaks English / the same language. Is there a way to handle multiple languages in OSQA? It would be good if one could tag each question with the language in which it is written/asked in. Then each user can specify a list of languages (s)he can read and answer and questions are filtered according to those. |
|
You could use tags: add some text on to your template page where questions get asked, telling users to use one of the language tags. And then list of the language tags. That last bit would need some new code. But here's an outline of what I have in mind: You'd have a set of tags for languages you did support, and some arbitrary prefix to indicate a language tag, such as i-: let's say you have tags i-fr, i-en, i-es for French, English, Spanish. Then on the questions page, you list those three tags, and tell users that they must use exactly one of those tags (plus 1-4 of the non-language tags). You might even want to customise the code to enforce that as a restriction, so that it won't accept a submitted question without one of the language tags (or you do something clever with, say, google-translate, to auto-guess the language). Then users can view particular tag lists, to select just those questions in that language |
|
I think this would be a good and simple way to achieve the multilingual question, * user when they 1st log in OSQA get ask what languages they want to see * when asking a question, user must (should be mandatory) choose the language, potentially he could refine his choice regarding language to be displayed for him I would love this in OSQA! |
@apmon, we require all postings to have a clear, specific QUESTION in the title field. Please edit this right away to rephrase the title as a proper question.