# Hoe organiseer ik enkele van mijn meertalige categorieën bij het importeren naar Discourse?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-organize-some-of-my-multiple-language-categories-as-i-import-them-to-discourse/164556
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [19 september 2020 om 14:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-organize-some-of-my-multiple-language-categories-as-i-import-them-to-discourse/164556 "2020-09-19T14:22:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [19 september 2020 om 14:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-organize-some-of-my-multiple-language-categories-as-i-import-them-to-discourse/164556/1 "2020-09-19T14:22:48Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [20 september 2020 om 00:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-organize-some-of-my-multiple-language-categories-as-i-import-them-to-discourse/164556/2 "2020-09-20T00:36:20Z")
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 globe\_with\_meridians](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multilingual-plugin/142740):
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> 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. [page_facing_up Get the code](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-multilingual)[book Read the documentation](https://coop.pavilion.tech/docs?ascending=false&category=94&solved=false)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 language system](https://coop.pavilion.tech/docs?topic=1693) whic…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [21 september 2020 om 00:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-organize-some-of-my-multiple-language-categories-as-i-import-them-to-discourse/164556/3 "2020-09-21T00:25:10Z")
All I can think of is this at the moment
> [@Structuring a multilingual community](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-structure-a-multilingual-community/73225):
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> bookmark This guide explains different approaches to organizing a Discourse forum for a multilingual community, including pros and cons of each method. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Discourse offers several ways to structure your site for a multilingual community. This guide will explore the most common approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. spiral_notepad This topic is no longer the source of recommended approaches to structure a multilingual com…
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [26 september 2020 om 12:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-organize-some-of-my-multiple-language-categories-as-i-import-them-to-discourse/164556/4 "2020-09-26T12:40:34Z")
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.