[Imc-wales] [Imc-uk-process] hiding non-english posts [was PROPOSAL: promotion guidelines]

[mish]

Hello

My understanding of maqui's comments is that posts from overseas without
translation are sometimes posted to the newswire.  It is fairly standard
practice to hide these.

With the change to officially supporting a second language (Welsh/
Cymraeg) then there is no question that posts in a supported language
will be allowed to show.

So a better way of phrasing what Maqui says is to propose a guideline
saying

articles and/or comments may be hidden for the following reasons:
...
* Unsupported Language: Articles that are in unsupported languages, and
that do not contain a translation or, at least, a summary of its content
in a supported language.  Currently the supported language for IMC UK is
English.

Then, assuming the new collective becomes part of IMC UK (and I hope it
does :) then we add Welsh/Cymraeg to the list of supported languages.

Note this isn't actually a proposal, just for discussion for now.  But
if anyone wants to propose something along these lines ...

mish

> There was some discussion at the Wales meeting on Saturday about the issue of posts in Welsh which 
> may arrive without a translation, either with just Wales ticked or with UK too.
> 
> The discussion was around the availability of people to translate every Welsh post and their 
> inclination (or not!) to do so.  We said that we would try and encourage people to post at least a 
> summary in English at time of publishing, and where possible this would be added to posts without 
> one, but there was a suggestion that it might become a pain to translate/summarise every post in 
> Welsh.  There would definitely be a commitment to check each and every post to make sure it meets 
> the editorial guidelines, but is it imperative that every post in Welsh should be translated?  Welsh 
> is an "official" language of the UK... and I can't imagine that we'd ever be able to offer the same 
> service in reverse.  I just mention this here for discussion as we will have to decide on a policy 
> at some point.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Genny
> 
> maqui wrote:
> 
>   just to mention that what I really
> > don't like at all - and I have hidden in the past - are posting 
> > completely written in other languages other than english, and which do 
> > not contain a translation or, at least, a summary of its content in 
> > english. I think these qualify for a hide straightaway.