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:: I've done a good deal of work on the Spanish, Italian, French, and a few other versions of Wikipedia since we last spoke. See [[https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conjunto_de_Smith&action=history]], [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ensemble_de_Smith&action=history]], [[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_di_Smith]], etc. which I (User:GreekApple123 on Wikipedia) created. A few of my translations (mostly into Chinese) have been deleted, or (for German or other languages) slapped with "translation needs improvement" tags, but I feel reasonably comfortable with the languages I cited above to start editing in them here. I only plan to translate a few of the articles in Electowiki to start off with, and for those articles I do translate, only some part of them, so you need not worry about the alternate-language versions of the wiki being flooded with hard-to-fix errors by me. So, are you comfortable with this, and if so, how would I get started? [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 00:57, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
::: I'm not comfortable yet, and I won't be for at least six months. It's going to take more than a couple of weeks for you to become a seasoned and trusted editor on [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/GreekApple123 eswiki], [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/GreekApple123 frwiki], [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/GreekApple123 itwiki], [https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/GreekApple123 ptwiki], [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/GreekApple123 nlwiki], or [https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/GreekApple123 zhwiki]. Barring an influx of new, multi-lingual editors ''who the Electowiki community trusts'', it's no guarantee that a clean, six-month track record on any one of those wikis is going to build the necessary level of trust on Electowiki, since very few of us in the current community speak the languages associated with those other wikis.
::: You mentioned: "''A few of my translations (mostly into Chinese) have been deleted, or (for German or other languages) slapped with 'translation needs improvement' tags''". Was this one of the translations: [[w:de:Copeland-Methode]]? I'm very tempted to send a note to [[w:User:Karsten11|the editor who deleted that article]] and better understand why that particular article was deleted. It would appear from [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5168347&action=history the history of "wikidata:Q5168347 (Copeland's method)"] that User:GreekApple123 was responsible for making the interlanguage link to the deleted article. My hunch is that this is one of the new articles you were talking about that was "slapped" with a "translation needs improvement" tag.
::: I am deeply appreciative of the people who review and refine the ample prose on this wiki. I think that Electowiki has been improving over the past year, after the prior years of stagnation due to the login issues. But I fear that adding new languages is going to make review ''much'' more difficult, since I fear that English prose is being added faster than the current community can review it. Can we review this in late November 2020, after you (and others) have had a chance to establish yourselves as trusted editors in those communities? -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 03:01, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
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