Since this forum has been updated to the latest beta of Discourse, can we use tag synonyms?
In particular, recent topics about localization have been using the tag “translation”, while older topics used “internationalization” or “i18n”. As a consequence, some old info has likely not been found by newer participants. That would be easier to find related topics if these were all marked as synonyms.
I would suggest to use “internationalization” for the main tag as it relates to both “localization” and “translation” and to attach the following tags as synonyms:
i18n
internationalisation
l10n
localisation
localization
translation
Even if some of these are not currently used, it makes easier for users to enter/find an useful tag.
As i18n and l10n are not the same thing (though they’re related) and we currently don’t have any localisation tags, I omitted that one.
“#translation” is a subset of localisation but not directly part of internationalisation, so I didn’t put that one under that umbrella, since people who want to discuss translation things here may not want to discuss the i18n side of things.
I glanced over our current tags but didn’t immediately see any other tags that might be synonyms of each other, of ones that are actually being used. It looks like the community is generally being good about grooming the tags on topics.
Edit: If anyone else sees some good candidates for possible merging/synonymising, just post them here and I’ll consider it!