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Re: One Year of European Tribune. What next? (4.00 / 3)

Some random-ish thoughts:

Language. How would people feel about other-language editions of ET? I'd imagine this working like English-ET, but for native French, Spanish, etc, speakers, with native-speaking front pagers. I'm suggesting this because multilingual integration on a single site is a noble aim, but doesn't seem to be working in practice. Obviously the danger is fragmentation, but I'd expect some organic overlap of the 'Did you see...?' sort. And this approach might even help English speakers (like me) to make the effort to follow threads in other languages. Some regional variations on attitudes and viewpoint could be interesting too, and would help tilt the balance Eastwards. We've already seen some of that with the Russians, but there's plenty of scope to include an even wider collection of viewpoints.
I think absolute numbers count for a lot less than influence. Corporate think-tanks have a very high media profile even though sometimes they're only staffed part-time by a handful of people; it's all in the presentation. As kc says, the dKos model isn't going to work in Europe, and ET will very likely never have thousands upon thousands of members. So a realistic alternative aim to sheer force of numbers is focussed media activism.
Some organic attempts to link up with other related groups could be useful. I have next to no idea who or what else is out there, and I'm sure there are people here who have far more of a clue about that than I do. It could be useful to collectively research a list of other progressive and active Euro-ish blogs and organisation with a view to cross-pollinating and networking with them.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Jun 13th, 2006 at 06:02:14 PM EST

Re: One Year of European Tribune. What next? (4.00 / 2)

Regarding 1), read the pie-fight that was conducted over the issue (in chronological order; this was in January 2006):

The general conclusion (at least in my mind) was that

we don't really want language-separated sections as that leads to fragmentation,
we aren't quite prepared to go multilingual given the low number of speakers of each non-English language among active commenters/diarists,
but if someone wants to, they can just go ahead posting in another language, but it is good to include a short English summary up front,
those speaking the language of a non-English diary should be helpful in translating/summarising to non-speakers or weak speakers of that language.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jun 13th, 2006 at 06:17:25 PM EST
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