My reputation and how to manage multi-lingual blogs.

Andy Hoppe, part of the web team at the World Health Organisation and one of the attendees of my recent workshop on blogging and RSS in Geneva just wrote a reference of my work there... I don't like to brag but in this case I have to point you to what he wrote on iKarma, my reputation tracker.

Andy recently started to set up his own blog (don't have his URL yet) on Wordpress and pointed out an interesting "issue" that we, European bloggers face... how to manage a multi-lingual blog ?

Let's say you post on your blog in different languages. In Andy's case that would be English and German (and maybe French later). How do you manage this ?

Would you create separate feeds for each language ? What would be your home page default language ? Would you use a splash page so people first pick their language and then continue to your blog ?

I'll do some research and try to find good examples but if you know of some multi-lingual blogs that work, please let me know.

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Comments

[Sam]

It's all in the plugins http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Translation_and_Languages
btw stop being such an ego.. you'll get a rep indeed..

[Francois]

We've build up a special blogging tool mainly for this multi-lingual purpose.

A first project is in beta testing and will be public by september.

If you need more information about this project, don't hesitate to contact my brother Denis ;)

[allan]

i've been having the same problem on writing entries in both Chinese and English. i'm using blogger dot com right now and i just post both the english and chinese text in one entry. i'm looking for some other way of blogging more effectively (if there is such a way of doing it).