Regarding regional categories hindering unified communication...(지역 카테고리가 통합된 소통을 방해하는 문제에 대하여...)

I agree. If you find a topic discussed in Korean community that might be useful for wider audience, please do bring it to tagging category Tagging help & support - OpenStreetMap Community Forum

But is it not shared? Anyone interesting in tagging discussions should be following that tagging category. Yes, I understand that is harder for non-English speaking people to find interesting topics due to lack of thread title (subject) translation support in Discourse.

Until support for thread title autotranslation is implemented however, the best one can do is find interesting topics that would be useful in their community, and link them back to to their community, inviting them to follow/read (with autotranslator help) and write (in Korean if they don’t know English) replies in that specific topic. Then other people can use autotranslator to read and reply to their comments too.

But somebody would need to take that effort to make an announcement to their community about interesting topics - for example, I might for Croatian community, or you might for Korean community. Or, even better, one might volunteer to once a week help translate OSM weekly and then post link to that in their community - OSM weekly seems to cover most interesting things that happen.

I agree with you that it would be good idea, but how exactly do you propose to share it more widely?

I had two main ideas above to move closer to that goal (example is Korean, but applicable to any non-English language/community) :

  • translate OSM weekly to Korean language and post it automatically in Korean community category
  • help lobby for Discourse to support thread title/subject translation (so Korean community could more easily participate in tagging and other relevant discussions directly)
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