Some more information on this topic can be found in the thread "Non-English posts on Perlmonks". I'm a little surprised you missed the discussion--It was very heated ;)

The idea, as far as I'm concerned, is to increase knowledge about Perl. Most people find it easier to learn in their own language. The reason Portuguese is being indexed here is because the Portuguese-speakers at the Monastery are active in this regard. If you would like to translate something, then I personally would encourage you to do so.

I hope that answers your questions.

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Allolex

Dear Chady

Thank you very much for writing and ask. Also thank you for appreciating my work. This makes me happy.

The actual reason for publishing translations for the best articles and documentation in the PerlMonks Monastery is to provide access to PerlMonks for our less english-skilled fellows in Perl. Just because they choosed another language (french or deutch, maybe?) it doesn't means that they can't read and participate on PerlMonks. They can even have their best articles translated to english, so the rest of the community could learn something from them too.

In few words, translating PerlMonks documentation and best articles to other languages is like building a bridge to join other Perl communities into PerlMonks family. This makes the family bigger, the knowledge greather, the parties better and the life easier.

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