[Tagging] An after-burner meta-discussion

[stevea]

On Feb 16, 2022, at 3:14 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Question for you (or anybody!) re Discourse, thanks Zeke.
> 
> Is there provision / possibility  for Discourse to have an automatic translator included, so that the main page appears in "English", but up teh top of the page there are a series of buttons to get French, Spanish, Russian etc etc versions of the same page?
> 
> That would help solve a lot of issues of not being able to contact everybody!

(Kind of off-topic, but OK):

More and more modern browsers (e.g. Safari 15.3 under macOS, though I think this feature was available in v14) support this with a button near the top or around the URL entry area.  If you ARE using a "more modern" browser, hover your cursor around the controls "up there" (in your browser, near where the URL is displayed or entered) and see if one of the buttons or controls says "Translation Available."  Clicking on it might show you that Translate to Spanish, Translate to French... are available, or you might have to first (if you haven't done something similar to this already) select "Preferred Languages..." to get to a setup dialog (for me in macOS 12.2.1 this is the Language & Region System Preferences pane).

As I am multilingual, I have set this up already (for Spanish, French and more...) and I believe that is either required, or "helps" that Safari's feature here presents me with this language.

If you are NOT using a browser that offers this feature, you might look into upgrading your operating system to the latest version, or perhaps updating your browser.  There are also non- OS- or browser-oriented ways to get natural language translation, like DeepL, translate.google.com and others.  Good luck.  Awareness and sensitivity to "non-English" is a very important consideration in OSM, as while many places use English (wiki, many non-country-specific mail-lists...) — and I am always impressed by the English language skills of others in our global project — anything we can do to increase awareness, sensitivity and respect that we speak many languages on Earth and in OSM, is going to help.