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Active in 2022
[edit]In the list of translators for Spanish, it says "Active in 2021". Why there is no list for active in 2022? We are almost at the end of 2022. --Thinker78 (talk) 17:11, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
There should be more Yoruba translation on the page
[edit]Most Yoruba words are not on wiki Temiluv (talk) 12:18, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
Should This List Be Updated More Frequently Because of the Scarcity of Translators?
[edit]How often is this list updated? I would have this list updated every month or two, or once or twice per year (I'm not sure which of these options is best). One reason that an English-language article can have some translated text from a foreign-language article inserted into it is that it's with the goal of getting that English article to GA or FA status. When doing such jobs myself, I usually leave other editors to improve and clean-up that text (depending on how bad-looking Google's translation is), because I can't do such efforts entirely by myself. The scarcity and non-availability of translators in the English Wikipedia (sometimes lasting for literally years after such users' most recent edit) is sometimes frustrating when I end up being the only one engaging in such tasks. One reason for that being the foreign language counterpart may have material that the English version doesn't have.Jim856796 (talk) 18:20, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Manual lists always go out of date. There was a time when I scanned lists of translators, and then compared to their last active period of editing, and my hit rate was less than 10%, sometimes zero. Imho, the individual names should all be removed, and replaced with a link, perhaps to Petscan, which would generate a list of translators for a given language based on a number of sources, including various user talk page templates like {{Babel}} and others. One of the sources could be a manual sign-up page where users could add themselves, but such a page should be only one of numerous sources, and names should auto-expire after a certain interval, to prevent stale entries. Alternatively, populated by bot with a list of individuals resulting from following such a link and de-duping and sorting the results. Running such a bot weekly or even monthly should be more than sufficient. Mathglot (talk) 01:12, 15 June 2024 (UTC)