Tor has a lot of non-english-speaker users around the world. How can we make this SE site useful for them? Is there a way to make an SE site multilingual?
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Currently Stack Exchange does not run non-English or multi-lingual sites except the sites which are about languages like for example German Language & Usage. On those sites it is allowed to ask and answer questions in both English and the language the site is about. For a long time there are several non-English sites waiting in the pre-beta phase to get a localized interface: Stack Overflow in various languages. None of them has started yet. :-(
In fact Jeff Atwood - one of Stack Exchange co-founders wrote:
It is not, nor has it ever been, our goal to be the one place in the world for all programming information in every possible human language.
The complete blog article from 2009: Non-English Question Policy
Since that time a lot has changed and individual sites are mostly managed by their communities. I am not sure how much may Stack Exchange Inc. interfere with decisions made on individual sites but I can imagine that a community can decide to use multiple languages. Probably administrators and more experienced users which are in contact with Stack Exchange Inc. can tell more about what is possible.
answered Oct 2, 2013 at 23:02
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1I wonder if we could require the use of tags for questions in languages other than English?– RunaOct 3, 2013 at 15:08