[Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Joan Goma, 15/03/2011 14:59:
> If we could filter the noise, in each monolingual list and then record the
> signal and translate it to the other languages this could enrich the
> conclusions and make all the people feel part of the global project.
>
> But I don’t know how to do this.

Perhaps a single multilingual list could efficiently work as a bunch of 
monolingual lists if we used mailman "topics" to label messages by 
language; each user could then set in its preferences which languages he 
wants to receive (only the languages he understands well, or also some 
related languages, or every language because he's willing to use machine 
translators or is not annoyed by non-understandable messages). In this 
manner, you could avoid fragmenting foundation-l (and other similar 
lists) but each subset of users could avoid being overwhelmed by 
messages in a foreign and not wanted language.
But I've never seen mailman topics in use and I don't know how and if 
they work.

Nemo