Timeline for Beta launching time
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://pt.stackoverflow.com/ with https://pt.stackoverflow.com/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/
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| Jun 3, 2015 at 8:53 | comment | added | Seçkin Savaşçı | @JonEricson it is sad to hear about the status of Turkish SO. Combination of Turkish is non-EU(Travel problems) and low income and low quality English education, you are missing out a huge crowd who cannot speak English. There are handful of universities where the language of instruction is English. Rest is using Turkish as the language of instruction. There is even a label recently popped up to describe bad programmers in Turkish technology sphere : Stack-overflow programmer, who cannot understand yet copy-pastes the solution from SO. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 23:31 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | @Barranka: The Japanese site is in beta, but there are still localization features left to build. (Today we talked about how comment pings work when people don't use spaces.) We have a Russian translation in the works and are starting on Spanish. As Peter noted above, we've hired a Russian Community Manager and we are searching for a Spanish-speaking Community Manager. Unfortunately, our plate is full with those languages, so Turkish might be a ways off still. The good news is that we've seen a lot of success so far. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 21:55 | comment | added | Barranka | @JonEricson SO in Portuguese was lauched more than one year ago! (right now, it's been in Public Beta for 454 days) I would think that 1 year is enough time to develop the "International features" needed... unless you want to build SO from scratch all over again. The SE platform works, and (I think) there's a lot of people waiting for this site to be launched... so, when will this site be taken out the "freezer"? | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 21:13 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | @PeterOlson: We haven't announced it just yet, but that is the plan. | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 20:08 | comment | added | Peter Olson | @JonEricson Is Nicolas Chabanovsky a new Community Manager for the Russian StackOverflow? | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 18:09 | comment | added | jachguate | @JonEricson Thanks for the answer. Yesterday I also noticed (after my post here) the job offering. (I could apply to it). :) I really love the idea to see StackOverflow in Spanish become a reality. So I'm really excited to see this happening. Best regards. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 16:04 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | @jachguate: Good news! This summer we hired a Japanese-speaking Community Manager who is working with our transaltion service to prepare for a Japanese alpha. And, to you particular interest, we are actively seeking a Spanish-speaking Community Manager. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 0:35 | comment | added | jachguate | @JonEricson More than half a year had passed since you updated us about the status for other international projects. Is there any change in the status? I'm interested in the Spanish site. I know it will be as successful as the Portuguese (if not more). Many thanks for your answer. :) | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 15:50 | comment | added | Lamak | Is it really needed to have a community manager that is fluent in the site language?. I think that most users acknowledge that they should use english in some level to communicate withe employees, and the mods should be the local language fluent ones instead | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 8:46 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | @JonEricson what are the criteria to say that Portugese has been successful? How much do you want/need to invest in given language? Do you really need a full-time employee? Do you need to establish a company filiae in given country to achieve that? Maybe starting up a new market would be much cheaper than you think, especially when you find some local partner. | |
| Mar 15, 2014 at 9:35 | comment | added | scaryguy | I'm completely agree with @Izzet Pembeci. As a Turkish programmer, I also believe that some silly breves and cedillas should not hold the entire process... I don't think that any of Turkish programmers would care those details. Besides most technical terms are in English as Izzet pointed. | |
| Mar 8, 2014 at 19:55 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod |
@Peter Olson: We went with This launch is on hold while we add the international features needed to make it functional for this community. Dates will be announced when available. While this does leave out parts of the story, it should give people more reasonable expectations.
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| Mar 3, 2014 at 19:03 | history | edited | Jon EricsonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Show the updated announcement.
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| Mar 1, 2014 at 6:43 | comment | added | Peter Olson |
Could you please change the message This proposal has reached 100% commitment. We are preparing for its launch and expect to create it soon.? Based on this answer, the "we expect to create it soon" part is false and is frustrating for people who have seen the same message for months.
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| Feb 21, 2014 at 0:26 | comment | added | pembeci | For instance, I believe accent characters in tags shouldn't be a show-stopper. Most of the tags are technical English words containing no such characters. Besides Turkish people are very accustomed to using the ASCII counterparts for such letters. I know it isn't an ideal solution but I'll (and I believe most Turkish people will) prefer having the site launch and use tags in a limited manner rather than waiting for this feature to be implemented. This is what I mean by helping to prioritize (i.e. "is this language specific feature a must or it can wait/ignored?" kind of decisions). | |
| Feb 21, 2014 at 0:25 | comment | added | pembeci | @Jon, thanks for the detailed answer. Since SO doesn't have a Turkish community manager yet (and wouldn't have one in the near future) I guess the best option is using the beta committers for this need. We may also help you to prioritize language specific problems you mentioned. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 19:50 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | @Peter Olson: It's partially a business decision. We are currently looking at how our Portuguese site fairs before ramping up for other languages. It's very difficult to get your foot in the door in Japan and the number of Japanese programmers who don't operate in English is rather large. We need a much larger lead time to find the right candidate to manage a Japanese community simply because there are fewer bilingual programmers than Spanish and Russian, at least. After we feel that Portuguese has been successful, we will start prioritizing the next expansion. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 15:53 | comment | added | Peter Olson | Is Stack Exchange even looking for community managers in these languages (Spanish, Russian, Turkish)? One the job listings page, it has a listing for a bilingual English/Japanese community manager, but not for Spanish, Russian or Turkish! Why is this? There's not even a proposal on Area51 for a Japanese Stack Overflow, but there are these three proposals that have had full commitment for a long time now. What's the reasoning for this? | |
| Feb 14, 2014 at 23:28 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | @Hast: There's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem there. In order to know who would make a good moderator for the site, we'd need to have a good understanding of the language and culture that the site targets. Community Managers are typically most involved in the formative stages of community growth. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 18:31 | vote | accept | ozahorulia | ||
| Feb 13, 2014 at 18:31 | comment | added | ozahorulia | But why couldn't active community members temporary substitute empolyee until you'll find one? Is it so importnt? | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 18:29 | comment | added | ozahorulia | Thank you for the provided answer! it explains everything. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 16:37 | history | answered | Jon EricsonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |