Wikipedia talk:Translators available

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Some of the people who watch this page may be interested in Wikipedia:Contributing to articles outside your native language. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:52, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

What about Croatian translators? Think there's a lot that has to be done regarding this language... --Neoneo13 12:41, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It's exactly what I was wondering. I was surprised to find that Croatian was not listed here. I'll add the section myself and watch this page for further discussion. Denis Kasak 14:19, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Merging

I'm going to merge Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Translators with this page. But about the users liste, should I move them, or easier just delete them? CG 17:59, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

The two pages have been merged. (Va girl2468 13:28, 20 October 2005 (UTC))

[edit] New templates

For translators and other editors on more than one Wikipedia, I've created two new user templates. They are both based upon {{user-c}} (which is a compressed version of {{user}}).

If the user name is the same for both Wikipedias you can use {{user-t}}. Type {{user-t|username|wp}}, where wp is the subdomain of the other Wikipedia (e.g. ja for the Japanese Wikipedia at http://ja.wikipedia.org).

If your user name is different for the two wikipedias, you would use {{user-t2}}. Type {{user-t2|username|wp|username2}}, where username2 is the user name on the second wikipedia.

Examples:

More is explained on the talk pages for each template ((see template talk:user-t and template talk:user-t2). If you have any questions or comments, please contact me. BlankVerse 11:16, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Updates

{{user-t}} now allows you to use an optional third parameter for the alternate name on the other system.

In fact, BlankVerse isn't "VersaBlanca", but this is for the sake of example.

This frees up {{user-t2}} to be used for two other systems, with alternate names again optional:

In fact, BlankVerse isn't "Haiku" either; this is still for the sake of example.

The documentation pages (and BlankVerse's own examples above) have been updated to reflect this greater flexibility. -- Ben TALK/HIST 06:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Time to purge some of this list?

I was going through the list, checking anyone without a user page, and then welcoming those editors who hadn't been welcomed. I'm roughly 1/4 through the list, and have already found several entries for editors who did not exist at all. Some of them were probably joke entries (user:MellowYellowFellow), but I have no idea concerning some of the other nonexistent editors.

Once those editors are weeded out, I think there are probably several other classes of editors that should be weeded out. Here are some suggestions on who might be removed from the list of available translators.

  1. Anyone listed at Missing Wikipedians who hasn't edited in at least two months and has a goodbye message on their talk page
  2. Anyone who has been permanently banned (I think I saw at least one of those) check Wikipedia:List of banned users
  3. Anyone who has only edited this page and their user page and hasn't done any editing in at least six months
  4. Anyone who has ignored a translation request and hasn't edited in at least two months.

BlankVerse 12:06, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, but, if possible, do put a note on their talk page telling them they've been removed, so that if they return they'll know to sign up again. - Jmabel | Talk 20:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Was anything ever done about this? I've been coming across a lot of long-gone people in my hunts for translators, and they're really exaggerating the number of available ones. I can go through and see what I can do to clean it up (and add talk page notes), but... Can it have a general timeframe of two months, rather than the various qualifications? Six months without edits is a long time; I highly doubt they'd still be checking their talk page, even if there's no goodbye message. Heck, I'd prefer one month even, but can understand that could be a little pre-emptive. Perhaps one month with goodbye, two otherwise? -Bbik 21:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Proposal: Unless there's some serious objections, since I'm fairly actively working on WP:PNT, I plan on being on and off this page quite a bit, and I propose doing the following in order to make this list actually usable:

  1. Remove names who have not made any Wikipedia edits in the past year.
  2. Anyone not having edits between 2 months and 1 year will be marked "inactive"
  3. Users with edits w/in 2 months will be marked "active"
  4. Users who I have contacted and have reiterated their willingess to help will be marked "available as of [date]"

Any objections? AKRadecki 22:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some of the users listed are gone

Since the list easily gets out of date, I think it would be best to install <DynamicPageList> and use it here. That way, you can see who has recently added the babel box to their userpage. --Steinninn 17:26, 26 June 2007 (UTC)