[Qgis-psc] News feed

[Nyall Dawson]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 07:58, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Nyall,
>
> I didn't set any language on this particular entry. So I definitely
> didn't tag it with english.
>
> But there are about 100 Million or so people who can read english AND
> german. Perhaps many of them have english set as their language in QGIS.
> If I tag this entry in german - they will never see this german entry,
> because they use QGIS in english. So the language tag is really useless.
> A lot of people speak multiple languages. Filtering only on the language
> they have set in their software is really making them miss out on
> content they could otherwise see and read.

That's why I suggested to post it twice, once in English with the
language set to English, and once in German with the language set to
German. That way you'll get the entry in whatever language you've set
QGIS to (unless it's neither English or German)!

In future we could extend the background to allow entries to have a
1:n relationship with translated text, making it easier to facilitate
this situation without having to publish the entry multiple times.

Nyall

>
> Andreas
>
> Am 31.10.19 um 22:39 schrieb Nyall Dawson:
> > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 07:15, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> >> Well - we are not exactly flooding people with entries. We started with
> >> zero entries, and now there are two. The one controversial one will soon
> >> disappear anyway.
> >>
> >> For me it is exactly the contrary. If I don't see any entries, I get the
> >> impression that this community is not really active. If users see a
> >> local event in the feed in region xx, it might encourage them to
> >> organize a similar event in their own region - don't you think? Even if
> >> there is a local event every week, this wouldn't be "flooding" our
> >> users. It would just show that there is some nice activity.
> > I can see your point, but tagging this entry as an English language
> > entry is just abusing the system. I'm about as passionate a member of
> > the QGIS community as we get, but even I don't get value in a news
> > entry in a language I just can't read! I think you should post this
> > entry twice, once in English with the en language tag, and once in
> > German with the correct language tag. That's how the system has been
> > designed for use... (at least until we get some smarter entry
> > translation system setup)
> >
> > Nyall
> >
> >
> >> I get the point though from Richard, that filtering content
> >> automagically (like social media does), based on (GEO)-IP address or
> >> languages is not desirable for everyone. If we can ask the users about
> >> their region or language of interest it would perhaps be useful. And I
> >> agree that "geofence" is an ugly term. Sounds like military/security. We
> >> could rather call it "region of interest". Sounds much nicer.
> >>
> >> I would also give people the option to see all entries - and maybe even
> >> make this the default.
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >> Am 31.10.19 um 18:26 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
> >>> Hi Marco,
> >>>
> >>> Il 31/10/19 17:41, Marco Bernasocchi ha scritto:
> >>>
> >>>> My point was more in not overwhelming the users right at the beginning
> >>>> with a not so useful message. it was mora a matter of timing, basically
> >>>> the second news I see on QGIS is relevant only to a niche population. If
> >>>> any other software would do that my instinctive reaction would be to
> >>>> disable the whole thing to protect me from an information overflow.
> >>> exactly, fully agreed
> >>> thanks
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