User Language

This page is for collecting information about languages currently spoken by Moderators. This could help with various matters, for example when you are editing an entry in a language you don't know well and wish to have advice from someone who knows the language better.

So please add your native language(s) and any others that you feel proficient in or knowledgeable about.

(This could be an RFE and we could ask for this to be put on the Moderator Profile page but then we will need a search function and so on: maybe this simple page could do the work.)

Moderator	Native Language(s)	Secondary Language(s)
azertus	Dutch/Flemish	English, (French)
bnw	Swedish	English, Dutch/Flemish, (Norwegian, Danish, German)
ClutchEr2	Italian	English, Latin
DJKC	English	Japanese
DonRedman	German, French	English, (Arabic)
dseomn	English	Latin, (Esperanto)
Fuchs	German	English, (Russian)
G0llum	SchwitzerDütsch	German, English, French
lindestinel	French	English, (Japanese)
LuKz	Slovak	Czech, English
mo	Norwegian	English, (Swedish, Danish)
Nikki	English	French
rob	German	English
Shepard	German	English
uraani	Finnish	English, Swedish

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Discussion

Wouldn't it make more sense to sort this page by native and then seconday languages? Someone looking for a help with a particular language will probably find it easier to check it that way than if it's alphabetically sorted by our user names.

Um, this is a wiki and sorted lists do not make any sense here, really. Better use wiki featues instead: You could make a SubPage for each language (maybe like this /NativeEnglish and /SecondaryEnglish or leave the Native/Secondary part out). Then each Editor can add their language to their category person page here on the wiki. (in my example ModeratorLanguage/NativeGerman, ModeratorLanguage/NativeFrench, ModeratorLanguage/SecondaryEnglish and ModeratorLanguage/SecondaryArabic). Then you can just get a list of all people speaking natively German via BackLinks. MoinMoin offers the possibility to list these pages on this page with macros like [[FullSearch(ModeratorLanguage/NativeGerman)]]. See HelpOnMacros and HelpOnEditing/SubPages for details. --DonRedman

• I like this idea more, although I think I would prefer 'native', 'fluent' and 'some' to 'native' and 'secondary'. Secondary doesn't really give us any idea of just how much of the language someone speaks, Rob's English is obviously much better than, say, LuKz' because he actually lives in an English speaking country. Is there a way of doing it so that you could get a list of all English speakers, and then if you wanted, a list of all native English speakers? --Nikki
  • Well, something like this: One SubPage for each language like ModeratorLanguage/German and a sub-SubPage for the nativeness (sp?) like ModeratorLanguage/German/Native, ModeratorLanguage/German/Fluent, and ModeratorLanguage/German/Some. Unfortunately these are not WikiWords so you have to write ["ModeratorLanguage/German/Native"] on your user page. If I got Moin right, then you could have BackLinks to ModeratorLanguage/German and all its SubPages. That is what you want, isn't it? --DonRedman

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If English is our only language, should we bother to ad ourselves? --SenRepus

• No, of course not! People who speak only English and expect the rest of the world to do so, too, are arrogant and do not deserve to be listed here ;-D (soryy, could not resist) -- DonRedman DelteWhenCooked