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Why is there no French Stack Overflow?
L'avis d'un français parmi tant d'autres :p
First, French-speakers aren't helpless: there are already many active online French-speaking communities on computing since 1999 (developpez.net for example,...
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Why is there no French Stack Overflow?
There has been a previous proposal (since deleted) for a French Stack Overflow, and its purpose was discussed at https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1280/french-stackoverflow-translation-...
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New Resources for Our Stack Exchange Network - Part 2
When we talk about international sites I think we primarily mean the "Stack Overflow in $language" sites and secondarily the "X language" sites (e.g. German). Do the members and managers of these ...
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New Resources for Our Stack Exchange Network - Part 2
Originally, there was a community manager dealing with each language site, and fairly familiar with the culture of the specific language Stack Overflow sites.
For most part they've been shifted ...
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Stack Overflow in ES, PT, RU, JP have mixed-language descriptions
The first issue (for a top bar) is done now:
But the rest (on stackexhange site list) still is an issue.
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Stack Overflow in ES, PT, RU, JP have mixed-language descriptions
The descriptions on the Site List have been updated.
See below for the changes.
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Why do I see a Spanish featured blog post?
Sorry about that. We recently moved our company blog to a different hosting platform (again!), and that caused some issues both with in-English posts being sync'd to community bulletins on localized ...
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Are [*-stackoverflow] legitimate tags or not?
Are these tags legitimate on MSE?
Yes, they are.
Localization is a tricky business and by its nature involves multiple sites. That fact alone makes such post on topic on this very site. To ...
reneMod
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Are [*-stackoverflow] legitimate tags or not?
Tim Post, a (well-respected) Stack Overflow employee, is now rolling back the tag removal. This alone is a good indication that the tags have their purpose here, for example for posting bug reports (...
GlorfindelMod
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Non English Stack Overflow-like sites
There's a Polish Stack Overflow-like site forum.pasja-informatyki.pl. It uses Question2Answer platform. Some stats:
24K questions
55K answers
99K comments
11K users
It's the only major Polish ...
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Is it allowed to customize the required tag-wiki-excerpts and tag-wiki?
Unless the international site has a specific rule requiring tag wikis to be direct translations (which they probably don't), you're free to make a suitable suggestion.
In fact, if you were to ...
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Where can I look at English localization strings on Stack Exchange?
English localization (which needs to be done primarily for handling plural/singular tenses) is something that does not have a public interface. We (the devs working on the site) need to handle these. ...
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Answering questions that are asked in a language I don't know
I'd say it's fine, and even recommended in a niche tag. Google Translate is good enough at Spanish, Portuguese and Russian* that the intentions of your posts are clear enough after translation; other ...
GlorfindelMod
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Site name gets cropped while looking at user profiles on international Stack Overflow sites
After a good bit of hunting, looks like the issue is really quite simple (though of course, on the server end I don't know...)
Looks like the logo is lacking the _glyph css class in the html. To ...
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Links in the footer in international sites should allow to point to translated pages
I'm not sure that the first link to "cc by-sa 3.0" should be allowed to change on localized sites. Because this is the first place and source of the license text. It can be changed only in one case if ...
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Site name gets cropped while looking at user profiles on international Stack Overflow sites
This has been fixed. The site logo at the top of all pages should now be shown in its entirety, for both logged-in and anonymous users (it had been cut off on some pages for international sites, for ...
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Encoding issue for message feed title
All fixed. As Grundy correctly guessed, we were using ANSI storage for the name rather than unicode. I have updated the database schema and manually set the name for this feed (although IIRC we update ...
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Non English Stack Overflow-like sites
Hebrew Q&A programming site: https://safot.cs.technion.ac.il/ which is an internal Q&A site of a major Israeli University and intended for their own contents, also using Q2A platform.
It ...
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But it is summer!
Perhaps 'solstice bash' would avoid some of the other prejudices / assumptions / traditions /cultural impositions etc
but i am not pushing for any change, just reflecting on my own question at What ...
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Any plans for a Turkish version of Stack Overflow?
The Area 51 proposal referred on the other answer was deleted. Please checkout:
Internationalization 'State of the Stack' - Stack Overflow edition
Tl;Dr: Area51 stop receiving new site proposals ...
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When will there be a Chinese Stack Overflow?
On 2015 Tim Post, the Director of Stack Overflow Communities here at Stack Exchange, posted Internationalization 'State of the Stack on Area51.
It looks to me that will take few years to have more ...
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Shouldn't the "English only" policy be mentioned in the FAQ?
It should be clearly mentioned that the sites are English only. Despite the fact that it's pretty clear at first glance that all the content is in English, people that do not know the language may be ...
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Make the language of notifications match the language of the site they correspond to
I think that this feature-request should be marked as status-completed as nowadays the notitifications on localized Stack Overflow sites are shown in the corresponding languages, at least this is ...
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