Use of prefixes allows sorting by languages...
Proposed: expansion of foreign language threads
- Thread starter schlaufuchs
- Start date
And they're off! A deep, philosophical discussion of sauerkraut has begun in OT! 
(actually I'm guessing it's deep and philosophical since I don't read German...
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(actually I'm guessing it's deep and philosophical since I don't read German...
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gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Will there be any other language tags? For an example, Espanol or French or whatever?
well German doesn't exactly seem to be in high demand...
As for other languages: mostly if there is moderator coverage for these, which currently would be a problem.
As for other languages: mostly if there is moderator coverage for these, which currently would be a problem.
The moderator load has been very low for [DE] threads I think we could add languages for which we have only one speaking moderator in OT.
PGDMian, you mean.Or Macedonian
Leaving aside Kyriakos' snark, need a hand?
BirraImperial
Pura Vida!
Can we have Spanish language threads? Probably asked before, but just wanted to check...I'm willing to serve as a moderator if needed...
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
That would have been really nice a year ago, but I've stopped all my Spanish classes and have subsequently forgot everything about Spanish.
After we made the rule change, it doesn't seem like there was much interest in German-language threads after all. There have only been 5 [DE] threads in the 13 months since they started being allowed. Is there a reason to think [ES] would be much more popular?
BirraImperial
Pura Vida!
I don't think that's true in terms of the Civfanatics population.
Looking at the top ~50 countries in our Facebook statistics, it seems we have about 180 'likes' from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria & Switzerland), and 150 from Spanish-speaking countries (Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Peru & Chile).
In OT, the Deutsch 101 thread has 1000 replies from about 85 participants, whereas the Español 101 thread has almost 400 replies from about 50 participants.
Looking at the top ~50 countries in our Facebook statistics, it seems we have about 180 'likes' from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria & Switzerland), and 150 from Spanish-speaking countries (Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Peru & Chile).
In OT, the Deutsch 101 thread has 1000 replies from about 85 participants, whereas the Español 101 thread has almost 400 replies from about 50 participants.
You won't know unless you give it a trial period.
1. You can ask them.
2. Somebody volunteered a few posts upthread.
I know that volunteering to be a moderator isn't considered good netiquette and it's not how things are done here. And I've actually got nothing riding on this, as my fluency in Spanish is limited to a handful of words and phrases. But I'm all for encouraging new things around here, and giving people a chance to at least try.
What I'm suggesting is that it would be better to just go straight to making it a permanent fixture. Given how moderation works on this site, we wouldn't be likely to select a moderator just for a trial period. But such a moderator would probably be necessary for the concept to work. So we probably wouldn't bother with a trial period if we were to implement this. And given that, we can't rely on a trial period to tell us whether there'd be demand or not.
