Can I post an article in local language?

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Dear Sirs,

I am wondering if an article in local language is welcomed here. All articles I saw on CodeProject were in English. But my project, strictly, is of no use for anyone not live in Taiwan. It is a zip code mapper, which maps a Taiwan address (in Chinese) to a 3-letter zip code.

Thank you in advance.

Johnny Lee

Posted 18-Nov-13 15:01pm

Johnny Worker

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PIEBALDconsult 18-Nov-13 21:44pm

Possible; but not recommended.

thatraja 19-Nov-13 2:33am

Grab more audience(worldwide) by posting in English. Or do onething, Post your article in English & include PDF of Taiwan version article in downloads. I think it's better suggestion. Here many mentors & admins helping new authors, if you have any doubt ask them. Article Writing forum

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-11-18T15:47:00

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Not that I'm against local cultures. Just the opposite. Of course, articles should be published in different languages, it depends on where you publish them. I cannot answer about acceptance of non-English articles (most likely they are not accepted).

My point is very different. And this is my own opinion, but I think it makes enough sense to listen to it.

Here: even if the article on this topic was written in perfect English, it would be of little interest for this site. At best, it could be interesting to some Taiwanese magazine on some community or state services, such as post offices.

The topic itself seems to be purely applied, it is not related to any software technology, interesting approaches to algorithms, architecture, design anything like that. There is no such thing as Chinese, Russian, German or American programming. Programming in international. If you can say your new word on code mapping in general (which I doubt), it would be interesting even in countries where ZIP codes are very different or just absent. If you explain how to map the codes in some useful way which would however useful only for Taiwan, you would teach people some anti-pattern: ad-hoc programming, lack of proper abstraction and generalization. Such approach would be opposite to programming.

Here is my statement: if your work would be interested only to people working only in Taiwan or for Taiwan, the programming value of this work would be negative, because it would teach an anti-pattern. If this is not so, your work would be interesting in an country.

I think this is something you should better at least think at.

—SA

Posted 18-Nov-13 15:47pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 18-Nov-13 15:58pm

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Johnny Worker 19-Nov-13 2:02am

Well, I've got a bit uncomfortable feeling like I'm "begging" for something. No I don't. This piece of work benefits quite a little group, as I've already stated in the beginning. Of any "programming value"? Give me a break.

Anyone in charge please give me an answer Yes or No and that's it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Nov-13 2:21am

I'm really sorry for your uncomfortable feeling. Of course, you are not begging for anything, and there is nothing which could possibly put you in this position. "It's all in your head". And please, let me decide to express my opinion or not. Too bad you don't want to listen to my advice, my effort has wasted, but it's fine. Now, as to "programming value", I don't know why should I "give you a break". If my judgement is wrong, this is a different story. Anyway, so far, my advice remains the same.
—SA

Johnny Worker 19-Nov-13 4:02am

Yes I appreciate you advice. But what "programming value" can my project have? If I turned it into English, what "programming value" can it have then? It is just a very simple library, a "project", which costed me less time than writing these comments. How "CodeProject" name itself? Frankly, it is really ok for me if CodeProject accepts English articles only. I just wanted to know if it's possible to change that policy. I can host my projects on CodePlex (like this one: http://dnnchina.codeplex.com/) as well, or nowhere at all. But as to "value", do you see an implementation of some ready design patterns is of any "programming value"? To me, if it helps me (even only me), it is valuable.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Nov-13 10:16am

Sorry for off-topic discussion. I am not 100% sure non-English article would be denied, and you may want to ask about it here: http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1645/Site-Bugs-Suggestions.aspx. (I even forgot your original questions and did not mention that, sorry.)

Now, we all understand that the value is hard to define and measure, that's why I limited discussion by the simple criterion I suggested: if the programming topic is interesting to developers of only one culture, it is not valuable as programming article. If it is helpful only to you, certainly not worth publishing.

Look, I can quite understand if my speculation are unpleasant to you, but the article is something to be read by different people, so it should be interesting for them. Writing about any project which one created is a pretty bad idea.

—SA

Johnny Worker 20-Nov-13 8:25am

Thank you for you time spending on my question. But frankly I no longer care about CodeProject's policy or anything related. My project is such a small one that benefits maybe just hundreds to thousands of people at most I guess, that's not worthy of our time here. But just one more thing to clarify: I believe my library can help someone else who live in Taiwan, which is not only me. I developed that project simply because there was no such library for C# (with source code) could be found on the internet. But posting this project here or anywhere benefits me no more and I won't talk about it any more.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Nov-13 8:50am

Thank you for this reply. I think we have some understanding.
—SA