How to organize some of my multiple language categories as I import them to Discourse?

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Hi,

The forum I’m importing is in English, and had a few categories in other languages:

Only the German category is active nowadays. Others have very little use. See the last activity dates:

We’re going to keep the German category, but what should we do with the others? I don’t really want to add noise in categories by keeping undeeded ones.

Below, my current solution is keeping the Other Languages category, and putting all topics in it except German.

German will still use a subcategory by itself, but other languages will use tags.

In the Other Languages category, the subcategory selector is set to “non” by default to prevent seeing 99.9% posts as German posts:

(French is a closed category with a redirection to another forum)

But I wonder if doing like this would be confusing for users.

A language is a language, Why some would be using categories when others would use a different system (tags)?

I’m not 100% right it’s the best solution, but I struggle to see a better one.

[Don]

Hello Canapin

In my opinion

1. Use group for restrict the Other language category and add a notice banner topic, a button or some notification for user. If they want to activate that category, join the group. (users can choose which content they want to see)

2. There is a really nice plugin from Pavilion which is use tags. I used it one of my site. There is an option Content Language. It create a new field in composer which is Language(s) When users create new topic they have to add the content language(s) and this tags the topic to the correct language(s). Users can select in settings/interface which languages interest and only those topics appears on the forum. But this one maybe not for forums which contains million topics because all topics have to have Language tags.

Multilingual Plugin

The Multilingual Plugin makes it possible for administrators of a multilingual forum to create a rich and comprehensible environment for all users and guests, even if they don’t speak the default or majority language of the forum. Get the code Read the documentation Report a bug Overview of features The Multilingual Plugin extends the existing Discourse locale system to give you: an administrative interface for all languages used on your forum; a content…

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

All I can think of is this at the moment

Use categories or tags to structure a multilingual community

There are a number of different ways to structure your site for a multilingual community. If you have additional examples, please share them below. “Other languages” category with sub-categories for specific languages CodeCombat - Other Languages - CodeCombat Discourse [image] [image] Alongside your ordinary categories, make one category for “Other Languages”. Add one sub-category for every other language you want to cater to. Pros Clean separation between languages Can potentially …

[riking (Kane York)]

Another option is to keep the several-subcategories, and promote German alone to a top-level category with one or two subcategories, as it’s your biggest one.