<table class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><tr><th>① No requests if you're the wiki admin and are requesting because you don't speak the wiki's language
</th></tr><tr><td>This rule serves to avoid that people create or adopt wikis and then have us translate for them. This also includes when requesting translations to "any language", if the translations are to be used on such a wiki.
<p>Allowed:
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- You're a user of a small language and editing on your own goes slow, so you'd like the WLB to help you write 2 or 3 articles.
- You have a wiki on which you wrote many articles, but are dyslectic and would like the WLB to correct some of your articles.
<p>Not allowed:
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- You created/adopted a wiki in a language that you don't speak, and would like to use the WLB to expand that wiki.
- You created/adopted a wiki in a language you don't know well, and would like the WLB to correct the articles you wrote.
<p>If someone makes or adopts a wiki with the intent to use the WLB (or other translators - but I don't have any say on that) to get/keep it running, I'd prefer that the wiki is left to people who do speak the language. I don't want the WLB to be "used" to allow others to collect administrator rights on wikis where they can't make any content or communicate with users.
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</td></tr></table><p>The above rule was suggested in
User blog:Yatalu/5 new rules and passed the vote with a majority, however this majority was rather close so I'm open for suggestions.
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- Do you understand why this rule will be in place?
- How would this rule need to change for you to support its implementation?
- How do you think this rule should be improved in general?
<p>My opinion is:
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- Translation requests should be disallowed completely; corrections should be allowed unless the requester has (very likely) been using a translation tool (e.g. Google or Bing translate).
<p>Give me some thoughts and ideas!
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