Thread:Algorithmz/@comment-188432-20170320161916/@comment-188432-20170322181541

Hey man :) I think that's a great decision. And you have not permanently screwed up in your goal to join IVT. But it is probable that most candidates would have to have a year's consistently collaborative work in order to be considered to join the IVT. So let's just turn the page and start that (approximate) year from today.

I think a good step in the right direction would be to approach Bluebird and Lord Eledan and apologise for your recent category additions and subtractions. Explain to them that you were merely trying to shape the structure of those two communities in a helpful way.

You should also offer to put the categories back the way they were, using your contribution list as a guide. But if they say "no", you should respect that.

Then ask them if there is any specific, menial task -- one that does not involve translation -- that you can perform to help improve the structure of those two wikis. If there's not, it'd be best if you accepted that there's not, and stay away from adding or subtracting categories at both PT and ES. Also, to re-iterate my comments above, I would completely stay away from doing any work on adoptions or other requests pages, until you talk to Bluebird and Lord Eledan to figure out what types of activity are helpful -- and what things aren't.

The key is to talk with the leaders of the communities to figure out what you can do. Once you prove yourself a good collaborator, your ship will right itself, and you'll be on your way to your goal. Believe me, almost all of us have made questionable edits. So I know you haven't permanently screwed up anything. You merely have to adjust course.

Also, remember the purpose of this wiki. You did so well with that first NL translation. You write translations here, then have native speakers check your work and offer tweaks. Once that's done, your work can be published. The same is true even of smaller works. It might be helpful for you to establish here a series of common phrases that are used all the time in regular maintenance of various wikis.

For instance, let's say that Bluebird gives you permission to add certain comments to adoptions requests at PT. (Again, this is hypothetical. I've not spoken to Bluebird, so what I'm saying is just an example.). You could theoretically prepare a list of common adoptions-related phrases here, have a native PT speaker and/or Bluebird herself check them out. So there might be the PT equivalents of: Work out the translations with native speakers, get permission from local admin to use those translations in simple adoption maintenance, and you'll have a course of action that everyone agrees with.
 * An admin has edited within the last  days. The wiki is not available for adoption until.
 * You have only edited for  days; you need to have edited for at least  days before requesting an adoption.
 * ... and so on.