[mekishizufu]

From Google Translate:

> The basic questions - those that once plagued every programmer - have not yet been made. You can write a question or definitive answer that will help tens of thousands of programmers in the future. (Oh, and do not worry if your question is already on the site in English.'ll Build you a website just for developers who speak Portuguese no longer need to use English to learn new things!)

Why not just provide machine translated versions of the original English questions with option to improve the translation?

I think that creating a brand new site will just split the large SO community and won't achieve much. Especially since you drastically limit the audience willing/able to answer the question.

[UweSchmidt]

Agree on the split-problem. There is no way I could be satisfied with anything but the best ressource with the largest community, so I'd go great lenghts to decipher the greater wisdom.

However machine translation isn't quite there yet (judging by the quality of Microsoft's MSDN-articles translated into German). The topics I read about there, or on Stackoverflow are by definition situated right at the border of my current understanding; a few translation ambiguities or odd word choices push it over the edge and I might not "get" it.

So I doubt building a community on machine-translated articles would work.