Thread:Algorithmz/@comment-188432-20170320161916

Hey :)

While your enthusiasm in contributing to PT translations is appreciated, I'm afraid it's confusing to native PT speakers.

As I've said to you in the past, collaboration is hugely important when you're contributing to languages you don't natively speak. It's vital when you start working on a wiki to figure out what the place is like before you start making edits there. One thing that's drawing some concern at PT is that you've jumped into the adoptions requests and started removing categories, such as and. While it may be desirable at other communities that these categories be deleted when an adoption request has been answered by staff this is not what Bluebird desires. She wants the ability to look, later, at these categories. She finds it useful to determine how long it's been since certain requests were filed. By removing these categories, you're pulling those requests off of lists she's using to maintain the site.

So a big lesson: Do not assume that you know how a particular CC works just because you're familiar with another CC.

Also, even on EN CC, some of your adoption request edits have delivered incorrect information. For instance, at the recent School of Rock request, you said:
 * Great! Now, you must wait until either every user votes or until about a week before we have an official response. :D

As Wendy implied, you were partially correct. Waiting about a week after a blog/forum post goes up is vital. But "waiting for every user to vote" can't be found anywhere in the Adoption guidelines at community:Adoption:Requests. It's important to strictly adhere to the rules as they are posted, so that every petitioner gets the same treatment.

Consequently, I'd hang back a little bit on adoption requests, Fandom-wide. For the next few weeks, I'd consult with people who make adoption requests on the various CCs. I'd ask them what you could do to make their lives easier. And if they say they don't really need your help, I'd live with that decision.

Another thing that's causing some concern at PT is that you've left behind some revision notes saying that you're correcting "mistakes". This is a loaded word that causes offense. If you make a correction to a page that was principally written by native speakers, and you say there's a "mistake", that's usually going to be interpreted as you saying that they don't know how to speak their own language! Obviously, that's gonna rub people the wrong way. It's going to be even more offensive if your changes actually aren't correct. (An example from PT: You throw down predefiniçãos when the word is actually predefinições.).

I gotta say, I've heard this complaint not just from PT but other CCs, as well. If I can suggest, it would probably be best when you encounter what you think is a mistake, don't call it a mistake. Instead, go to an editor whom you know to be a native speaker, and ask them if there's a better wording. You can even then suggest your wording and get comments back.

As a longtime admin of wikis, I think I would be inclined to give a short block to someone who was introducing errors, even while their edit summaries said thery were correcting "mistakes". So I would strongly adivse you to never again use the word "mistake" (or any synonym thereof) on a wiki where the language isn't one you speak natively. This is particularly the case where your edits choose a different word or grammatical construction. 