Language of tags

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I noticed that some of the tags are in English, for example, and and some are in Esperanto, for example, and . This seems like it will produce a lot of duplicate tags, and difficulty in searching and filtering effectively. Should there be a standard for what language the tags should be in?

asked 2016-08-29T05:05:26.630

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1Moderators will be able to set tag synonyms, allowing a complete set of Esperanto-language tags to exist in the system and point to the "standard" English-language tags (or vice versa).–None–2016-08-30T19:01:27.737

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I'm starting to think we should rename all of the tags to Esperanto. In the Spanish, French and Portuguese StackExchanges the tags are all in their respective languages and have descriptions in that language too. There appear to be aliases for the tag names in English.

It's interesting that on those sites there are many more questions that are in the language of the site. If we rename the tags this might encourage more people to ask in Esperanto and then the site would be more accessible to people who don't have such a good command of English.

asked 2016-08-29T05:05:26.630

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The grammar terms of Bertilo such as "o-vorto" and "vorteto" are also simpler to understand.–None–2016-09-16T17:46:13.443

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I would say that in general we should stick with using tags in English, except in the case an Esperanto word is more appropriate because it expresses a concept that is otherwise difficult to express with an English word.

I would rather avoid using and .

asked 2016-08-29T05:05:26.630

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It feels natural to me to use some tags in Esperanto, such as muziko. Especially since those probably are topics we'd talk about in Esperanto...

asked 2016-08-29T05:05:26.630

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The language used to ask a question doesn't change the subject of a question. Plus, it is not like we have users who would be able to answer a question tagged [tag:musiko], but not questions tagged [tag:music]. As most of the Stack Exchange sites, also EL is an English site which just allows to ask questions in Esperanto too. It is not an Esperanto site about Esperanto.–None–2016-09-17T07:02:00.120

All the topics on Esperanto Language are about Esperanto. Other questions about other languages are off-topic.–None–2016-08-31T10:51:52.013

Not "about" Esperanto - in Esperanto. As in per Esperanto, using the language.–None–2016-09-06T21:54:21.957

Since the topic is Esperanto, you cannot ask a question about a song in Chinese, or Chinese music. So, the distinction between [tag:music] and [tag:musiko] doesn't make sense.–None–2016-09-06T22:06:56.290

I don't think it is essential that it should be muziko, I was just trying to explain why it feels like a natural tag to me rather than "music". I don't think you have understood what I mean, so I'll try to clarify. Some questions are going to be in Esperanto, some in English. It feels to me as if the questions IN Esperanto logically should have tags as well IN Esperanto. (There are other reasons why all tags should be in English). The music that people ask about should logically be in Esperanto, but my comment is about the language used to ask the question.–None–2016-09-08T21:09:02.027