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Review of supported languages

Can do more, but should in that case probably compare user page category membership. Feel free to clean up the list, I have also done that for a few usual suspects.

Siebrand11:37, 15 June 2011

Sorry, don't understand "compare user page category membership".

You asked me to draft an e-mail and I have done that above. The draft e-mail includes a reference to the language associated with the person. the list of users doesn't mention the language. So, either we redraft the e-mail without mentioning the language, or we add the languages for each user to the user list. Which do you prefer? If we are going to add the languages for each user to the user list, can this be done by a script, or do you need me to add them manually?

Lloffiwr12:31, 15 June 2011

I will start to add the language code to each user name on the idle user listing over the weekend, unless I hear otherwise from you.

Lloffiwr12:24, 17 June 2011

I'm in Vienna today and all weekend for the Wikimedia Fundraiser Summit. No time, I fear. Your efforts are highly appreciated.

Siebrand12:48, 17 June 2011

My commiserations on your working weekend.

Lloffiwr11:12, 18 June 2011

I have found that quite a few of the translators registered for these languages are not proficient in those languages. I have listed the ones with proficiency 0, 1, 2 seperately. The e-mail above is not very suitable for them. So I have drafted an alternative e-mail, to do with as you see fit:

Greetings from translatewiki.net where you are registered as a translator for (or have contributed translations to) the language [name of language] (link to portal). It appears that no translators for [language name] have made any translations during the past year, so we write to remind you about us. We hope that you can help to find some others who could translate this language here.

Please visit us [link to home] to find out what's new at translatewiki.net. If you have any questions on how to use translatewiki.net please ask at Support (link), or try asking in another language (for example Russian, Arabic, Hindi) on the talk page of that language.

With best wishes.

Lloffiwr18:29, 25 June 2011

The list of idle contributors is ready. I have added registered translators who were not on the original list, by reviewing SupportedLanguages. I have deleted languages which have variants which are active, that I didn't spot the first time round. This leaves 74 languages on the list, I think.

This has been quite a long process, but it has thrown up a few interesting things, so that's all right. If (but only if!) a few of these languages become active again, I'd be happy to do this job again sometime - I expect it would take a lot less time the second time round.

Lloffiwr18:41, 25 June 2011

Bump

Lloffiwr14:38, 13 August 2011

Siebrand: should we find someone to do this?

Nike11:13, 22 August 2011

Yeah, I think GerardM :).

Siebrand23:28, 22 August 2011

Has an e-mail gone out yet? If not, do you want me to send the e-mails manually, one by one?

Lloffiwr13:57, 9 October 2011

If you're willing to do that, that would be great.

Siebrand13:15, 10 October 2011
Lloffiwr (talk)10:47, 18 October 2011

For notes on work done, see User:Lloffiwr/Inactive languages.

Lloffiwr (talk)21:21, 18 October 2011

Superb!

Siebrand22:54, 18 October 2011