[Tagging] Immigration, asylum, refugee centers

[Warin]

On 25/09/2015 7:09 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> 2015-09-25 11:00 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>>:
>
>     There was far more detail on the Russian page than on the English
>     page,
>
>     leading me to believe that the Russians are leading .. at least on
>     this tag.
>
>     Personally I see no reason why English has to be the primary page.
>
>
>
> because English seems to be the language most of us can understand. If 
> tags get developed in a different language, people will not be able to 
> participate in the discussion and if the details of tags are not 
> available in English, many people will not be aware of these details 
> and will not be able to use a tag according to its definition. This 
> can be nonetheless an option if a tag is only relevant in a certain 
> geographical region, but for globally significant tags it is clearly 
> not desirable.
>
>

I understand that it is 'not desirable' but
where a particular group is

a) developing something and they are more fluent in something other than 
English then


b) a particular interest in the tag that has not been active elsewhere then

  I have no objection to them going ahead in that language. In fact I 
would think that would lead to a speedier development with possibly more 
people.
There is little trouble caused by an automatic translation these days.
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