Multilingual site submission

phaoost

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Hello,
I have multilingual site, which serves worldwide. Can I submit it in regional sections according to languages and to general section?
 

brmehlman

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Not regional sections, no. At least not unless the site is related to a particular region.

You may submit to a language section, a subcategory of World, for each language the site is written in.

No machine translations, please. We do not list those.
 

hutcheson

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Note the difference between "Regional" (which is like "World/English/Regional" -- that is, contains only sites with English content) and "World" (which contains sites in languages other than English, whether Regionally-relevant or not.)

By the "general section", I think you mean the "English-language categories". If that's correct, treat (for instance) "Business" categories as if they were called "World/English/Business".

If a site is truly multilingual (as opposed to babelfish-enabled) you may (and please do!) submit to one appropriate category in each Language.

In some languages, some sites may be eligible for both a Topical and a Regional listing. This is more likely for languages like English/French/Spanish that are spoken in multiple continents or countries; less likely in languages like Romanian/Japanese/Danish that are spoken almost exclusively in one region (thus, "World/Japanese/Regional/Japan/Business" would be nearly equivalent to "World/Japanese/Business". For languages somewhere in the middle, like Dutch, better ask specifically.
 

phaoost

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Thank you. I have done as you've told. As a result my site appears to be listed in World/Netherlands section, but until now it is not listed in root category, although I have English section of my site longer than Netherlands one. Does it mean that my site will not be listed in root category or it is still waiting for review?
 

hutcheson

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There is no way to predict or explain review dates -- think of them as random. They certainly have nothing to do with site publishing date or site submittal date -- it's whichever category the editor happens to work in today, and whichever way of looking for sites the editor happens to select, and how quickly each particular site shows up according to that way of looking for sites.
 
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