Thread:Algorithmz/@comment-188432-20170217214223/@comment-188432-20170217224923

Hey man :) Thanks for writing back!

Lemme lead with the hard truth: this won't be an official Fandom project.

From reading the pages that you've created today, it seems like you're trying to set yourself up as an alternative to several existing official projects.

Just to pick one example, International Development Project Wiki/es says you want to give assistance to ES speakers. But the ES team already have well-established pages for that over at Comunidad.

We also have portability mentoring programmes at EN w:c:p, and design request pages at EN CC. And there are other help programmes all over Fandom.

Thing is, though: it is important to keep them in one place for each language, under one brand.

Your best course of action is simply to participate at an official community. But it's important for you to participate according to your skillset, and not to change your identity just because you hit a roadblock. I'm really not sure what your native language is. But for a while at least, my advice would be to stick with that. Build a reputation for offering good, solid edits in your native language. When you move to another language, don't assume you know it as well as you think you do. Work with native speakers to hammer out high quality work.

For instance, I notice at w:c:nl.community:Help:Infoboxen that your recent efforts to expand the translation were swiftly and largely altered by native speaker Tupka, with the revision note, "So many anglicisms it hurts." Several other native NL speakers have since agreed with Tupka's assessment. Don't see this as a failure on your part. Instead, view it as an opportunity to work with native NL speakers who obviously care about getting good translations. In the future, just have people like Tupka or Yatalu take a look at your work and give you advice.

And don't think that because you get blocked on a wiki that it means you're a bad user. I know you had a little three-day vacation at ES CC, but that's no big thing. The best of us have been banned at one time or another. Just use the time off to understand what went wrong. Try not to commit the same offense twice.

Just remember: '''There's nothing you did as Dis that required you to change your identity and start anew. Absolutely nothing.''' Own your mistakes. Your reputation will grow.

See, your enthusiasm is entirely needed around Fandom. All you have to do is work with other people. Get native speakers of languages to help you with translations. Get staff members running official wikis (even me!) to read your technical work and help you shape the message.

But do, please, work on the current official wikis rather than creating a parallel project.