Is really needed to define a site which is the same as StackOverflow but in different language?

Question

Propuestas:

• Desarrollo de Software en Español
• StackOverflow in Spanish

This proposal is to create a StackEchange site which subject is exactly the same as StackOverflow, but in a different language: Spanish.

I'm StackOverflow frequent user and I'm sure there are others involved in the process... IMHO site definition, by voting on-topic or off-topic questions is really not necessary, as we know what's valid in StackOvervlow and what is not valid there, and we can refer to StackOverflow way to do things when in dispute.

The effort, for sure, is to translate that things to the average Spanish speaker user.

I'm not against the phases of area51, I think the site proposal has to get enough followers, commitment and beta... this question is just about on-topic and off-topic questions which seems not really necessary.

Answer 1

Yo creo que sí es necesario, no todos los hispanos leemos bien el inglés, obviamente habrá algunos que sí, sin embargo, sus inquietudes y apreciaciones han sido descartadas de tajo por no saber el ingles, ahora bien si no entiendes lo que yo digo, entonces estarás en la misma posición de los hispanos que no saben inglés.

Answer 2

Yes.

For this example, it isn't so much the content of the example questions that is relevant, but making sure that the community is there.

My making people define, upvote questions, you ensure that you've got an engaged enough community to make a beta successful.

Answer 3

I think it's more practical to work through the requirements that it is to try to get one of the requirements waived in this case.

I have a suggestion with regard to votes on example questions. What is really needed is 40 questions with 10 votes each. Don't waste your votes. If a question you like already has more than 10 votes, consider voting for a question that has 8 or 9 votes instead. That way we'll get to the magic 40 sooner.

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He usado mis cinco votos en preguntas ejemplares que sólo tienen diez votos. Si estas preguntas llegan a tener más de diez votos, cambiaré mis votos para aumentar los votos para preguntas que tienen casi diez votos. Como ya he dicho, estoy de acuerdo que la definición de SO en español debería ser paralela a la de SO en inglés. Pero persisto en la opinión de que más vale proceder con los requisitos que tratar de obtener una excepción.

Answer 4

I think that It is not needed but socially useful. The fact is that Spanish people has not own language site, but Japanese people has one. Even Portuguese has one.

It is more of a social matter (and finally, it matters, even when we're not here for anything more than just learn). It is very frequent that, due to prejudices, Spanish community is mistaken to be non-important in IT. However, considering the amount of involves countries, there's a lot of programmers -with bad marketing, seems- which have something to say.

In my personal case, I have no trouble at all reading English. And so, Japanese people shouldn't, as well, have troubles reading English. So there's no point of making a Japanese site at all. In particular, the same applies to Portuguese. The PT people is far less people (adding both from BR and from PT, against adding the spanish contries worldwide), and that translated to programmers; but they have their lang's site.

So, I understand these proposals are on-hold since an internationalization mechanism is being implemented. In that sense, languages will be unified in one platform (it will be easier to migrate questions among languages).

I support the idea of such mechanism since it is far better than having many different sites. However, if the idea is never implemented, I'd like to support the idea of the Spanish site.