FYI: upcoming rearrangement of Ask Fedora subcategories

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Sometime in the next week, I’m going to implement a planned change to the :category_ask: Ask Fedora subcategory structure.

Specifically, I’m going to

  • create a new “Start Here” category, which will contain help and guide posts (like those currently at the top level)
  • move all “Ask in English” posts to just Ask Fedora, and remove Ask in English
  • change the layout from the boxes at the top to something else.

This will simplify things, and particularly, resolve the confusion over having a top-level “Ask” category where most users can’t post. The resulting hierarchy will look like this:

  • Ask Fedora
    • Start Here!
    • Ask in Other Languages
    • Common Issues
      • Proposed Common Issues
      • Archived Common Issues

I will put redirects in place so that current links should all continue to work. You may want to adjust your notification settings after the change.

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Sounds great! looks like this change will make it easier to find information and ask questions correctly.

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Not trying to make waves but it seems to me a solution like Facebook has on posts would be a great opportunity to become more user friendly in that there is a translation option for text in a post. But I don’t know if people of other languages have this same option to translate from english to their own language but I assume they do. And I don’t know how difficult that might be to implement here.

Just a thought
Thomas

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Feel free to make waves. :classic_smiley:

There is a translation plugin for Discourse (the software that powers this site), but that works by sending the message to a translation API service. We need to work out the details of which such service we might use — either find someone who will donate use of their API, or find interest in running LibreTranslate…

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Thanks for your prompt response :grinning:

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This is now complete, although I’m still figuring out what the exact subcategory presentation should be. Please report any problems by posting in Site Help & Feedback.

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