Review of supported languages
Apologies for being quiet for a while. I'll try to catch up on this this week.
No hurry.
I have created a list of users that have contributed to these languages code (at least, as far as we have records, which is since July 2008) on User:Siebrand/Idle contributors.
I'm on the list, and so are some staff members!
The list doesn't make a note of the language associated with the person. What is best, to redraft the message not mentioning the language or look up each user to find the language?
Also as mentioned above this list doesn't include registered translators who haven't made any contributions either at all or since July 2008. Do you want to compile a list of registered translators for these languages and combine the two lists together, or just stick with one list?
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.
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?
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.
I'm in Vienna today and all weekend for the Wikimedia Fundraiser Summit. No time, I fear. Your efforts are highly appreciated.
My commiserations on your working weekend.
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.
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.
Bump
Siebrand: should we find someone to do this?
Yeah, I think GerardM :).
Has an e-mail gone out yet? If not, do you want me to send the e-mails manually, one by one?