You half convinced me.

I agree that we need some support from the perlmonks system to separate langauges. It would be very confusing at least to have nodes of several languages mixed.

I agree that we can't translate documentation to all languages, that would be impossible.

However, many questions posted on perlmonks are one-time questions that no-one will want to look back later. I think it wouldn't hurt if these are asked in the monk's native tongue, especially if he doesn't know English well (there are lots of people like that, belive me). Of course, these questions will not be as effective as asking in English, because much less people will read them. However, for beginners who want to learn Perl, this would be an option, as some of those people will probably still be able to give an answer.

Well, this is what I thought at first, but you really made me uncertain. I belive more and more that this solution wouldn't work. People wouldn't read the non-English questions, because they will most probably be beginner's question, and because few other people will read their answers.

Maybe it's indeed better to leave perlmonks as a pure-English monastery, and leave this kind of support for non-English mailing lists.

In reply to Re^4: [PT_BR] Escrever em Portugues no Perlmonks by ambrus
in thread [PT_BR] Escrever em Português no Perlmonks by Mago

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