Federating and Growing the Italian-Speaking Community! (featuring @claudiop63 as author)

in steemit •  8 years ago 


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In a recent, very inspirational post @gavvet has highlighted the importance (both from a cultural and a community development viewpoint) of fostering the growth of linguistic diversity on Steemit.
https://steemit.com/languages/@gavvet/the-birth-of-linguistic-diversity-on-steemit

In un post pubblicato recentemente, @gavvet ha messo in evidenza l´importanza (sia dal punto di vista culturale che in termini di sviluppo della comunita´) della crescita della diversita´ linguistica su Steemit.

Publishing high-quality content in languages other than English (possibly including English translations to increase visibility) is a key step towards making Steemit viral worldwide. However, at the moment posting on Steemit in “foreign” languages is a bit of a chicken and egg game…

Many people feel their language community is too small for their native language post to have an impact, but at the same time everybody acknowledges that the community will hardly grow unless they publish more posts in their own language and then share them on e.g.Facebook, so that outsiders can discover Steemit and decide to join.

La pubblicazione di materiale di qualita´ su Steemit in lingue diverse dall´inglese (eventualmente con una traduzione in inglese per aumentarne la visibilita´) e´ un passaggio chiave per la crescita virale di Steemit su scala globale. Tuttavia, al momento la pubblicazione su Steemit in lingue “straniere” e´ bloccata in un circolo vizioso...
Molti considerano che la propria comunita´ linguistica e´ troppo piccola perche´ un post in lingua originale abbia un impatto visibile, ma allo stesso tempo tutti sono d´accordo nel dire che la comunita´ non puo´ crescere se non si pubblicano piu´ post in lingua originale e non si condividono su Facebook, ecc, per permettere a persone esterne di scoprire Steemit ed iscriversi.


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I think that one way out of this deadlock involves seeking help from a highly visible “whale”, willing to promote foreign language posts (including English translation) through the “featured author” scheme. The idea is that if such posts make a sizeable impact, this will raise awareness of the size of the language community and motivate foreign language writers. As my native language is Italian, and @gavvet has kindly agreed to support this idea, I am asking all Italian authors who are interested in writing a bilingual (English/Italian) post to be featured by @gavvet, to get in touch with me @claudiop63 via the chat and also to join the #italian channel in order to discuss strategies, etc.

Let´s bring more Italy into Steemit!

Ritengo che una strategia per spezzare il circolo vizioso possa essere quella di farsi aiutare da una “whale” che sia pronta a promuovere post in lingua straniera (che includano una traduzione in inglese), attraverso il sistema “featured author”. L´idea e´ che se tali post avranno un impatto visibile, la comunita´ linguistica si rinsaldera´ e gli autori saranno motivati a pubblicare in lingua originale.
Visto che io sono di madrelingua italiana, e che @gavvet ha gentilmente accettato di sostenere questa strategia, chiedo a tutti gli autori italiani interessati a pubblicare post bilingui (Italiano/Inglese) come featured authors di @gavvet di contattarmi @claudiop63 tramite la chat e di entrare, se non lo hanno gia´ fatto, nel canale #italian, per poi discutere strategie, ecc.

Cerchiamo di riempire Steemit di Italia!

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  ·  8 years ago (edited)

This is great. We absolutely need the other language groups in order to go viral.
Questo e favoloso! Abbiamo veramente bisogno degli altri gruppi linguistici!

@kus-knee (The Old Dog)

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I hope this gains some nice traction. The specific language would need a decent sized representation to get the benefit, but it would be awesome to see it. Until then, I agree that including an English translation will be very helpful.

Great @gavvet, this motivate to each one of us to spread the Steemit word in ours native languages, this iniciative is also avaliable from another great member of steemit comunity @chitty he is working with the Spanish speaker comunity and he is featuring new authors.

Steemit does seem to have a great European reach... now we just have to get a couple other countries involved! Lots of growth potential...

LOL, le maggior parte delle risposte sono in inglese.

Great ideas!

Buona idea! Non sono fluente in italiano ma ho detto mia fidanzata italiana di questo proyecto. Bravissimo!

Just want to stop in again to say thanks for all that you do to enrich this community and make it a better place.
There are few people even in this awesome community doing more for the betterment of it and helping more people.
I will keep following and supporting as to participate in such a cause~
Best Regards~*~

Italiano pizzaaaaa

Another task which is relevant to spreading Steemit worldwide is the development of interfaces in other languages. I plan to work on the Italian one.

Agreed