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Hello!

Out there, there are some specialized forums for non english speakers.

I'm wondering, if it would help the community, if there were foreign language sections here at invelos? - One for each language, which has enough members to support an own board...

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IMO, it's a bad idea. The forums here at Invelos are for the "community" as a whole to discuss issues relating to the program. Segregating the forums into languages would only fragment the userbase. IMO, if a user is uncomfortable with using a language other than his/her native tongue, he/she can always post in their native language. It's been my experience here that everyone is more than willing to assist non English speaking users with problems/questions related to DVD Profiler when posting in a language other than English. Heck, I've been known to assist some Spanish speaking users from time to time. Just my 2 cents (which, after taxes comes to 0.012080 )
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IMO, if a user is uncomfortable with using a language other than his/her native tongue, he/she can always post in their native language.


In theory yes.

But in practice, if I go to a forum and see all posts in english with no french section, I'll automatically post in english and never even think to post in french. Granted in my case that's not a problem as I understand and write english well enough to get my point accross (albeit sometimes very clumsily), but still, if there was a french section, I would feel much more comfortable posting in french there, than on the "regular" forums, as sure happens with a lot of foreign language users.
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IMO, it's a bad idea. The forums here at Invelos are for the "community" as a whole to discuss issues relating to the program. Segregating the forums into languages would only fragment the userbase.

Yes and no. - IMHO the userbase tends to fragment more, if there are external sites where the users not familiar with the English language find together.

The problem I see with this is that the wise guys get their knowledge over here at invelos and have no reason to visit the "low level knowledge forums" held in foreign languages. This keeps the foreigners away from the knowledge

The bottom line for me is, that we do not only separate languages but also DVDP knowledge with the currently external sites...

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IMO, if a user is uncomfortable with using a language other than his/her native tongue, he/she can always post in their native language. It's been my experience here that everyone is more than willing to assist non English speaking users with problems/questions related to DVD Profiler when posting in a language other than English. Heck, I've been known to assist some Spanish speaking users from time to time.

From my point of view, it works very seldom and the visitors are quite discouraged to write here at Invelos. The first thing they get, is a link to the corresponding external site... which is good and bad: Good, because they get helped over there, and bad, because the leave this site where all the knowledge resides...

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Just my 2 cents (which, after taxes comes to 0.012080 )

... makes a total 4.012080 cents on my account - I'll get rich over here

Regards, AA
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IMO, if a user is uncomfortable with using a language other than his/her native tongue, he/she can always post in their native language.


In theory yes.

But in practice, if I go to a forum and see all posts in english with no french section, I'll automatically post in english and never even think to post in french. Granted in my case that's not a problem as I understand and write english well enough to get my point accross (albeit sometimes very clumsily), but still, if there was a french section, I would feel much more comfortable posting in french there, than on the "regular" forums, as sure happens with a lot of foreign language users.


The important point for me is not only the possibilty to write/communicate in ones native language - I don't think I'd write much in german if there were a german section her - but to have people like you - and maybe myself - who carry the knowledge, wishes and problems of many different users accross the borders of languages.

BTW: I can't imagine of people speaking clumsy English who know and use the word clumsy - your are cheating

Regards, AA
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IMO, if a user is uncomfortable with using a language other than his/her native tongue, he/she can always post in their native language.


In theory yes.

But in practice, if I go to a forum and see all posts in english with no french section, I'll automatically post in english and never even think to post in french.

Not to mention that it will quickly get annoying for people to see posts and threads in languages they don't understand. This doesn't mean that I'm in favour of adding sub-forums for different languages. I'm not. If people wish to have discussions in languages other than English there are plenty of other forums on the internet for that.

The only exception would be a multi-language technical support forum. That would actually be useful and serve a purpose. Other than that I feel these forums are fine as is.

It should be noted that English is not my native language.

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I want to add one word, what made me starting this thread:

Some time ago, the french community over here had some problems with the english speaking guys. This conflict escalated and ended up in something the english speaking guys named anarchy, while the french preferred to call it liberté and built up their own rules - at least for me it seemed like this.

Nowadays we get the bill presented, that the best french contributors are frustrated and the contributions system seems not to be working for them any more... IMHO this wouldn't have happened, if the french community has a forum over here at Invelos... - There would be a way found in between anarchy and regulation, which leaves the liberté the french want and keeps the database working...

Regards, AA
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It should be noted that English is not my native language.

Mine neither.

But we both have the advantage, that in our countries the english language has some importance - we learn at least the basics over here and I assume in Canada it is much more than only basics...

But there are countries which don't put any emphasis on the english language at all. They are hadicapped throughout the web in common and over here especially...

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But there are countries which don't put any emphasis on the english language at all. They are hadicapped throughout the web in common and over here especially...

Regards, AA

Regarding this question. Like many others here I'm not a native english speaker, I'm a french native (not the country, but a French Canadian) and I've no real trouble to understand english (ok I'm not the best writer but I can read and listen it). I don't see a problem to have different language sub-forum, but I don't see myself use them (internet is my way to not loose my little writing skill). Usually when someone wrote in a different language in the forum he/she receive an answer, at least I've seen it for french, german, dutch and some others.

Concerning the part I've quote, not speaking english is not an handicap on the web since it's easy to use google to translate a web site. I've use it to translate german, spanish,... and even if the translation is not 100% corect usually it's understandable.

My 3 cents on this (I feel generous this morning  )
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and I assume in Canada it is much more than only basics...

Well, the majority of Canadians does have English as their native language so for them it's no an issue. And for Francophones there's mandatory English studies from a relatively early age. Sometimes that's not enough though, and there's plenty of Francohphones who speak very poor English or next-to-none at all.

My basic concern with adding non-English subforums is that it may splinter this forum. Right now there's only the odd question or thread being conducted in non-English, but with entire sub-forums I worry that will be much more extensive.

For non-software related threads that's fine, but then again those sorts of discussions can be held elsewhere. For software related threads it's not fine, as discussions like that should be accessible to as many users as possible, and the only way to accomplish that is to keep those kinds of discussions in English.

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I want to add one word, what made me starting this thread:

Some time ago, the french community over here had some problems with the english speaking guys. This conflict escalated and ended up in something the english speaking guys named anarchy, while the french preferred to call it liberté and built up their own rules - at least for me it seemed like this.

Nowadays we get the bill presented, that the best french contributors are frustrated and the contributions system seems not to be working for them any more... IMHO this wouldn't have happened, if the french community has a forum over here at Invelos... - There would be a way found in between anarchy and regulation, which leaves the liberté the french want and keeps the database working...

Regards, AA

To be fair, there was ONE French who says that French users have stopped contibuting because they don't understand the rules.  I don't recall any other French user expressing a similary complaint.

But if you look at his actual complaint, it wasn't with UNDERSTANDING the rules it was with FOLLOWING them.  He wants to correct spelling and grammar errors in the Overviews.  What some of us English-speaking guys consider anarchy is the assertion that French users shouldn't have to abide by the same rules as English users when contributing French Profiles.  Refusal to follow the rules IS anarchy.
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Precisely right, Ken.

For AiA, the problem which you refer to
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There would be a way found in between anarchy and regulation, which leaves the liberté the french want and keeps the database working...


Stems from the simple fact that the Online database is not series of isolated databases, it is a conglomerate of the work of EVERYONE. So while I understand you comment,please understand that because of its design the failure of even of even ONE locality to follow the Rulkes and do things they way they wish to affects the data for EVERY other user in the world.

If Ken were to isolate the various localities into their own dataset that impacted only that locality then all Localities could adopt their own Rule set. This would weaken in most ways the strength of the database overall, but would give what you have suggested. I thin in the overall scheme of things the design as it is appropriate, therefore it falls to all of us to follow the rules for the benefit of ALL users including those that do not frequent the Forums or simply lurk.

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To be fair, there was ONE French who says that French users have stopped contibuting because they don't understand the rules.  I don't recall any other French user expressing a similary complaint...


And how many french users regularly post here ???? 
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To be fair, there was ONE French who says that French users have stopped contibuting because they don't understand the rules.  I don't recall any other French user expressing a similary complaint...


And how many french users regularly post here ???? 

You aren't the only French poster, just the only one to make the claim that French users have stopped contributing because they cannot understand the rules.  Other than because you have said so, I've seen no evidence to support that assertion.

Sorry, I don't trust any statements from one disgruntled user -- who has often stated that he disagrees with the rules for contribution -- and until I see that assertion confirmed by more people I will continue to view it as such:  an unproven claim by a self-admitted anarchist who doesn't think he should be required to follow the rules that all other users (French and non-French) have to obey.

I don't think French users are any less capable of understanding the rules than other non-English users.  So, given the fact that the Rules will not be tailored to suit the desires of French users any more than any other users -- I believe it is up to those French users who are also fluent in English to translate the rules into a form that non-English fluent French users can understand.  But if they refuse to help people understand the rules and perhaps counsel them on ways to circumvent those rules -- I say to heck with them.  French users aren't any better or worse than anybody else.  The rules are for everybody to follow.  If you don't choose to follow the rules it's your problem and has nothing to do with whether or not people (French or otherwise) can understand the rules.
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another problem that would arise is the liability of the owner of this website. It is there responsibility for the content. So they should be able to understand any foreign language that they allow on this forum.
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To be fair, there was ONE French who says that French users have stopped contibuting because they don't understand the rules.  I don't recall any other French user expressing a similary complaint...


And how many french users regularly post here ???? 


You aren't the only French poster, just the only one to make the claim that French users have stopped contributing because they cannot understand the rules


And how many french users regularly post here ???? 
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