Continuing the process at What is talkgroup? and following the format at Firefox `policies.json`, I’m going to go through each settings page in Discourse and explore the function of each, and then in doing so I will document what those settings are for talkgroup in #meta.
Okay, let’s get started with “Required”, the first settings page in Discourse (/admin/site_settings/category/required):
The default language of this Discourse instance. You can replace the text of system generated categories and topics at Customize / Text.
This is the default language for a Discourse site. What does that mean? Well, it interacts with a series of settings that affect which language the site is presented in, so let’s get through all the settings and then explore the entire sub-system that is user locales. It’s fascinating stuff!
For talkgroup this is set to English, as that is my default language and I promote the platform primarily in English. However, I want to extend the platform to as many languages as possible! So we’ll definitely look at the sub-system and see what we can do.
In our case, this is “talkgroup”. I think of the “xyz” as in “any subject/topic”, so I call the entire platform “talkgroup”, which is reflected in the title here.
This setting is a text field, and is used to construct the title of the site. We will look at it and a few other settings, and then figure out how best to proceed. For reference we’ll look at the following documents: