I wonder if there might be a way of doing both and neither.

Right now, as qgil has said, there's a proliferation of maemo related communities. It's a hot topic.

On the other hand, this place is the 'Official', nokia sponsored place not only for fora but both all things maemo.

I'm hearing concern that Other Places might spread misinformation (which would be bad for maemo generally) and concern that multi-lingual subfora would drain much needed resources from maemo.org (which would be bad for this place).

What about inviting them to some sort of 'link exchange'? If we have speakers of most languages around, they might do a once over now and again of a 'non-nokia' site to check for obvious garbage? The other site would gain the kudos of an official link to the 'nokia funded' site. We would gain a nice collection of foreign language companions - who will most likely be end-user orientated. And enough leverage to ***** at them if they pass something as gospel that is pure apochrypha (like, say, a release date...)

Would that help the problem?

(My first language is gibberish)