What is a good work flow for creating bilingual tag synonyms?

Question

When I create a new tag at a SE language site, I have trouble setting up the synonym relationship with its bilingual equivalent.

Suppose I notice that a bunch of existing questions are about a particular grammatical topic, but we didn't yet have an appropriate tag for that topic. I have enough rep to create a tag, and I can go through the relevant questions and start adding the new tag; but I get hung up at the stage of creating the synonym in the other language. In other words: suppose I create the new tag in Spanish. I would also like to create a tag in English for that same topic, and I'd like to set up the synonym relationship. This has always proved messy, largely because of the requirement to have a minimum score in that tag.

Sooner or later I end up posting in Meta to request moderator assistance, but this is not a great solution because it clogs up our Meta and the overstretched moderators start feeling swamped.

What is an effective, smooth, efficient work flow for non-moderators to create bilingual tag pairs? The tag synonym system appears to have been invented for general use, not for language sites which have a significant learner sub-community which needs all the tags to be available in English as well.

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Edit: Related post: Can we allow 7.5K users to suggest tag synonyms without a score of 5 in the tag?

Answer 1

The whole tag synonym process is a hassle. There is no good way for regular (i.e. non-mod) users to create tag synonyms. There is a "bad" way (it's actually borderline abusive and I wouldn't recommend it): find any answer of yours with a score of 5 or more, retag the question to include the tag, go and create or vote on the synonym, and after that rollback the question you retagged.

The right way to get synonyms made is to ask a moderator. If you don't want to ask on meta, do it in chat. If the current moderators are stretched too thin, then the solution is to grow elect some more.

Answer 2

For creating tag synonyms the voting process doesn't work very well so I have been asking the mods on the Great Outdoors to implement them. I tried both asking in chat and raising flags and found both methods to be rather prone to miscommunications.

So I wrote a meta post asking for 15 of them and then the mods took care of it within two weeks.

While I agree that is is seriously inefficient to post a meta post per synonym, if there are a bunch that are needed, it works to put them into one post.

Nobody disagreed with any of the ones I proposed, but if, say, they had liked 14 and hated 1, I would probably have just tabled the 15th to a later date.