@mbauman Do you think there could be a “Multilingual” category where we could automatically move posts like this? Many of us can answer questions from people in other languages (I suppose they don’t feel comfortable expressing themselves in English).

[image] anon74562486: Moreover who wants to do programming and science in general must at least understand a minimum of English. https://julialang.org/diversity/ → "we believe that a diverse community is stronger, more vibrant, and produces better software and better science. " What is the m…

Diversity is important and different languages are often a part of different cultures. However, the thing that makes discourse unique is that we have moderators and input from core developers. Unless we can find that kind of support I’m not sure it matters how many speak a given language.

Ideally with automatic translation, Hungarians could keep communicating in Hungarian if they wished to do so, but the majority would not be excluded and would be able to participate in English. There would be double-translation for the supported languages. What is the point of diversity without incl…

[image] rafael.guerra: Ideally with automatic translation imho: If we follow the diversity statements recommendations ( by @nassarhuda [1] ) AND We are creating educational material in non-english language ; THEN the next logical step → we need to support this new community members. My qu…

The word diversity in that context means “avoiding the irrational discriminations present in the culture.” Having different sections for each language would not promote inclusion but rather promote marginalization. In my opinion, two distinct things can happen: 1)all posts are translated into all…

[image] anon74562486: This post was generated with an automatic translator, I didn’t write a single word in English. I’m quite impressed with the natural flow of the translation. Can I ask what translator you are using?

[image] DNF: quite impressed with the natural flow of the translation Me too! I think I will stop writing in English and use that :joy:

I am using deepl from Italian to English.

[image] anon74562486: deepl Just tried it on a relatively difficult Russian text - the translation quality is impressive indeed!

Just for curiosity, these are the question and answer that originally motivated this post, translated by DeepL: Question: Hi, I’m new to Julia too. In some sites it says that it is a compiled language, but as it does not create an executable, I think it is more like an interpreted language (becau…

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