# Multilingual forum - basic requirements

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/multilingual-forum-basic-requirements/109327>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** translator\
**Created:** [February 16, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multilingual-forum-basic-requirements/109327 "2019-02-16T15:44:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multilingual-forum-basic-requirements/109327/1 "2019-02-16T15:44:02Z")

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Hi,  
I would like to make my italian based forum available to english speaking people, so this plugin (translator-plug in) is a basic element. In my opinion the minimum requirements to make the multilingual forum works are the following:

**Automatically translate topic titles**  
All visible topics titles should be automatically translated in the local user language (same as in user preferences). This is quite obvious: how could a user with foreign language choose a topic if he/she doesn’t understand the titles?  
I suggest to substitute the original text title with the translation, then to add a second line with the original title.

Example (original topic in italian):

> Translate from italian to english  
> _Tradurre dall’italiano all’inglese_

The same suggestion applies for:

- visible category title/description
- visible pinned topics

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**Automatically show cached translations of same user language**  
This could be an option in the user preferences or in Admin Settings. It’s very useful. If you read a translated post twice, you have to re-translate all single topics once again with the globe buttons to see the translation. It’s not user friendly.

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**Nice to have: search in cached text**  
Search function: include original text and all cached translations

All the above options won’t dramatically increase translation fee but I’m sure they will improve the user experience.

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