It is envisaged at the moment that a huge influx of Chinese-using users to Steemit is inevitable. Language will become an urgent issue to deal with for the development of this community (of course I acknowledge the fact that a lot of non-English languages have been active here and a lot more will come as well). What I think of right now is that I came across many high quality English posts from time to time but if there is no translation (into Chinese), it is expected that a big portion of the future Chinese users won’t be able to read or digest them to a certain degree, which is a great pity and hinders communication and sharing among different groups of people. There have been some translators’ efforts like @benjojo ‘s Translation Services List. But the problem is even if someone does the translation job, it gives rise to the problem of double rewarding (despite that fact that translation should also be rewarded accordingly) or potential plagiarism. It may be partly resolved by the private negotiation between the author and the translator on authorization and profit sharing. But I don’t think that’s a permanent or systematic way to solve this issue. So far I can only raise the question, but no proper solution is on my mind – maybe that’s what @dan and @ned should consider next.
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看來遲早大量中文使用者即將快速湧入Steemit，語言成為此社群一個需要思考的問題。現在想到的是，我常常看到許多高品質的英文文章，但如果沒有翻譯，可能中文社群很多人會無法看到或是吸收不良，這是很可惜的(未來若是中文興起，反之亦然)。如果有人投身翻譯，在這會碰到授權/剽竊或是重複獎賞的問題(當然翻譯工作本身是值得獎賞的)，雖然某種程度可以透過翻譯者與作者的授權與分享利潤協議來解決，似乎不能作為一種妥善的解方。拋個問題，沒有答案，或許是管理者未來該思考的。
You have highlighted an extremely important issue. Thank you!
you are welcome! I think facebook also didn't tackle this issue - they just let different groups of people stay together without reaching out to see how versatile this world is.
A good technological solution to this problem could be revolutionary or very worthy innovation. We could have a translation arm to Steem, which automatically rewards 30-40% of the earnings of a translated post to the translator. The website or translation arm must have a way of judging and scoring translators.
yeah. i do think this is an issue not tackled by any existing community sites owing to the obvious fact that there is no reward system.
@deanliu languages are so cool indeed :)
awesome cool article
I feel that it applies in another direction too. The non-chinese people might also be in fact interested in trending chinese content but they also have no way to read it, maybe other than machine translation tools which are often gibberish. To reach both sides of the world, maybe people who are bilingual can write in both languages as long you feel that the issue at hand is important?
我觉得老外同样会对那些火红的中文贴子有兴趣。 但是也没办法阅读。就得用google 了。所以我觉得可能那些双语能力都很强的人可以用双语写那些你认为想转播重要讯息的贴子
I find that something always gets lost in translation.
I agree, less gets lost in translation when someone who is multilingual translates it.
Main problem is: creating a single, bilingual post or two separate posts for each language (english and other)?
Other problem: if we write two different posts for each language, how to set up tags and category to avoid plagiarism accuse?
You addressed a fundamental issue here, let's see if Steemit developers will try a way to manage it!
我想，一个社区初期的价值观点都是比较友好的。翻译的时候，如果征得原作者的同意，应该是没有问题。
最LOW的是，现在有人用 Google Translator，直接 Copy/Paste。
以現在系統似乎沒法直接跟作者快速聯繫? (只能reply,但也許很快會改)... Maybe in the future we can have a translation bidding function associated with each post?
I second that - a translation bidding function would be great - I have a lot of Chinese friends who haven't joined because of the language barrier - this could solve it
@deanliu 是不是很开心？你的第一个破 $1000 的帖子诞生了。 :)
你有什么别的联系方式吗？例如微信， QQ, Skype 或其他方式
他已经在微信群里了
@xiaohui 很驚訝... 我一天前看是破百, 沒想到變這樣... 但我沒看到你說的一度破千就是, 可惜了點(週末沒時間上線) 謝謝 @coinbitgold 幫我回, 我確實有加入微信群, 但也很少看, 訊息流動太快, 你們這群都是專業的, 有時我也看不懂... 歡迎微信私訊我, 但我不常用就是, 但遲早會回的... TKS to all #cn ers for me. this post is inspired by their coming (currently 1st trending post)!
You can do google translate extension or right click on a google chrome which will say translate as well.
Google translate is pretty terrible
有一次，我看过一章说：我想被你打。
总决的乖乖的。
I noticed the lack of translation on here, we are missing out reading these posts which is a shame
software translation should be avoided as it presents a bad reading experience
Very true
thank you for your post i will be featuring it
https://steemit.com/life/@gavvet/daily-pick-of-hidden-gems-11-featuring-dragonslayer109-as-author
我觉得没有必要去翻译帖子的内容。而是应该做一些tag，就用国家域名后缀，某种需要的帖子建议都放在本国域名的tag底下。
steemit needs a language filter option for those of us who only speak english.
That's why I was mentioning if it's considered plagiarism if it's in a different language or if it not because you credit the post? I wonder if you are to do that, can you be a co-author to a post?
https://steemit.com/cn/@cybercodetwins/why-you-should-starting-reading-the-chinese-posts-and-how-to-translate-them-fast
I love the idea for a secure open platform for those living in the mainland.
Its about time like minded intellectuals and individuals have a platform to engage with one another and the outside world and share ideas and information.
Btw there are many other mainlanders who use jump the firewall to twitter on a regular basis, we might want to contact them about steemit. Might serve as a better alternative.