Paul, if you do not have too many tags, one way to do multilingual tags would be to literally tag things in more than one language. For instance, if you have a boating scenery in Québec, you could tag it "Québec", "boat", "bateau", "barco", "scenery", "paysage", "paisajes", for tags in English, French and Spanish.

Great to hear that you're planning to add support for multilingual tags :)
Do you have an idea when it will be available?

I'm setting up a (small) multilingual site and my plan is/was to use tags lot.
For me it's not a solution to have tags in different languages that everyone can see.
Actually I would be hoping for the same as PaulBuhtab in the original post ;)

@PaulBuhtab are you working on your metadata idea?

@acrylian with the implementation you propose you assign a language / languages to a tag, but is there a relationship between the same tag in different languages (I have the impression it's not the case)?
If not, what would / will the language switcher do if, say, I'm on the page for tag "X" in English and now I select French as my language?

Sorry, we can't tell when this will be available. This will be part of a bigger release and we currently are all a bit busy outside ZP. There a still quite a few things to do before we want and can release that.

You will be able to assign a tag to several (or all) languages, so if tag "x" is available in English and in French all will work normally. If it is not assigned to French however it will not since it is simply "not there".

[quote]You will be able to assign a tag to several (or all) languages, so if tag "x" is available in English and in French all will work normally
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Yes now I've played around a bit and I see how it will work.
That's OK for me to assign the same tag in different languages, as long as only the ones in the language of the visitor are shown.
And if people already did that multiple assignment (as recommended in several forum threads...), as soon as they assign a language to each tag it will work for them without changing the tag assignments that's nice I think. I'll probably do that in the meantime, then.
It's also nice to be able to add several languages to the same tag if it's the same word in several languages :)

[quote]Sorry, we can't tell when this will be available
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OK, I understand that you don't have a defined schedule, I was asking just in case you were about ready ;)

In Github there's an issue about it and there's a commit from sbillard, but that's [i]not[/i], like, a merge/port of the Zenphoto20 multilingual tags feature to Zenphoto, right? (looking at the commit I'm actually not sure of the relationship of the commit to the issue - as I'm new to Github I'm not sure if I'm missing something there ^_^")

Multilingual tags will be generally backward compatible. If you run in single language mode all will be like it is now, only if you enable the multilingual mode the tag sets will be available and used.

Zenphoto20 is a fork of Zenphoto who left the project last year. It is an entirely separate project from us now and we are not involved with it.