https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42894
kipala <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from kipala <[email protected]> --- I am the admin who asked MarcAurelio to bring the request here. MaxSemenik: We had not thought through the aspect of talk pages.I agree that this extent is not desirable. If wikipedia has no technique to differentiate - I think I can speak for the users that we pull back on that aspect. Brandon Harris: You hit the point on "overwhelming"; in our language culture the problem is less "bad faith" but unexperienced casual users who do not think much about (western style) rules and hve bad command of written language; by our scale we have a flood of East Africans who write faulty language (having had all or higher education in English while speaking Swahili slang) or take the shortcut via google-translated when they lack the words to translate themselves (and have no dictionary); we also have lots of google-translated stuff from people who do not know the language at all and just want to spread their pet topic.. Google translate does not work for Swahili, we still have lots and lots of unrevised ugly entries from the google-sponsored sw-wikipedia competition which a naive wellwisher from the foundation agreed on with the google people (some laptops to win..) Ariel T Glenn: We are at the moment not 2 on a daily basis. I myself had been practically out for some months with only few visits. The number of deletes does not reflect what we should have deleted. It is only 2 of us - not daily present- who have this year worked on delete proposals and carried out deletes. At the moment we are too few and not daily present. There is a backlog for the potential of our input. (and we prefer to work forward towards article cration) There is other aspect we discussed in Swahili: many casual visitors do not have own computer but come from internet cafes, thus with always changing IPs. this makes it very difficult communicating with them what we have tried for a long time. Any limitation you can give us will be a great help. Please do not treat us worse than en.wikipedia. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
