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

[Genny]

hi all...

Ah, OK, yeah I understand the difference there.  That makes sense to me.
What do other people think?
Maybe we can get together a proposal from the imc-wales group at some point?

imc-wales people....

Talking of which, did anyone else want to comment on the proposed name change to cymru-imc-wales for 
this (imc-wales) list?  Shall I give it, say, another 48 hours and then go ahead and request the 
name change unless there are any objections?

Genny


mish wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
>