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chrisale on October 18, 2006 - 10:59am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Hooray!  About time someone with more time and energy than me put together TOD:Canada.   I may have content in the future as I try to convince my little neck-of-the-woods on the West Coast to become more Peak Oil Saavy.

Est-ce que ca va etre bilingue?  

It wouldn't hurt to approach some bilingual authors to try to get some posts in French.  Could actually draw in a whole new readership profile into TOD.

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Stoneleigh on October 18, 2006 - 11:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hosting posts in both official languages would seem to be the Canadian thing to do. Personally, I'll stick to writing in English, as writing in French (at least doing so correctly) would take me more time than I have available unfortunately.

Feel free to contribute content (contact me at Stoneleigh2006(at)msn(dot)com). The west coast is currently under-represented and we'd love to hear your perspective.

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Khebab on October 18, 2006 - 11:34am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That's a good idea, maybe I'll try to make my next story in both languages.
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roel on October 18, 2006 - 12:12pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That would be good, for those who can write it in two languages.

We have to give some thought to how we would organize it, though.

If you do it, do it well, I'd insist.

For instance, if only one in 10 stories is available in French, that isn't ideal, it's discriminatory. So you would need pretty solid and quick translations (you can't have a 10-day delay).

Also, in the Comments threads, things can become pretty messy, if you have long strings of people reacting to each other. You don't want to force them to scroll more than already necessary. There must be a point of "scroll fatigue". I'm sure that already happens over at TOD, there are regular complaints about the scrolling through hundreds of posts.

Still, the threads, we can just see where it goes, and act when we find it gets out of hand. For the stories, we'd have to have a concept beforehand.

One solution would be separate threads, but is that so great?

Another option might be to include buttons for "All languages", "English only" and "French only", if technically feasible.

But I'll admit the separatism issue is ugly in my view.

We're actively thinking about it.

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Khebab on October 18, 2006 - 12:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I agree, it requires some thinking! BTW, I don't know if such forums or blogs exist on the web.
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Glenn on October 18, 2006 - 3:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I would suggest that we mirror the story on another hidden page in French. Then the commenters could react to folks in their own language.
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Syntec on October 18, 2006 - 11:43am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The WC has been represented for sometime ;)
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chrisale on October 18, 2006 - 11:45am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Time is the super-villain of the Blogging World.

Considering the traditionally progressive viewpoints of Quebecois, I'd expect there to be quite a bit of interest from that particular province in some French language posts.

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Syntec on October 19, 2006 - 1:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I think we should definitely encourage posting in Francais and a 'mirror' is a great idea.  Quebec is an important energy user/generator and we would do well to obtain valuable insight from contributing members of the French community (if not a language lesson at the same time)... n'est-ce pas?
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