Greeters Question

Question

What do we do when someone makes a comment in a foreign language while attempting to become a member?

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Membership_Criteria

We can't confirm someone even if they leave a lengthy comment if we don't know what they're saying. Yet, since this is a worldwide tree, people of non-English countries need to be a part of it. Can they only be a part of WikiTree if they speak English?

I saw one of these in the Greeter feed and have been puzzling about it since.

Comments

fyi - the translation to Spanish of a welcome message got an OK by a translator (G2G question: http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/13765/translation-help-needed-spanish-english ) and it's now on the http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Welcoming_New_Members page too.

Cheers,

Liz

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Thanks to Paul, Google Translate has come in really handy. So far both Spanish and French greetings have been used. :o)

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Just got through checking out the links. Thanks for the information, Liz.

Answer 1

Try google translate. It should give you the general meaning.

Cut and paste their text into:

http://translate.google.com/

Also, Wikitree is slowly gaining members with some other language skills who are willing/able to help.

Some exampes of a start in that direction is:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glossary_Hungary

and a few others.

 

There is also an attempt to put together a list of useful resources for other countries in the Genealogy Help Category:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Genealogy_Help

 

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Thank you, Paul. It's so encouraging to know others are working on this and have come up with some solutions. The person who made the comment in a foreign language was in the feed several days ago. I hope someone with your knowledge of ways around the language barrier welcomed him. I think he was already a couple of days into the feed when I saw him, so I'm afraid no one responded to his request.