We need more language helpers!

Question

WikiTree is definitely becoming more international!

I was wondering if we could have this link on our MENU >>> http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Language_volunteers

AND if anyone can help, even just a few words - about family, genealogy and gedcoms - in another language PLEASE LIST YOURSELF as a language helper!

 

 

Comments

Hi Maggie,

Maybe http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Language_Resources should go under the Help menu?

I'm curious, what prompted your posting here? Is it from Greeting? I happened to notice a visitor from the Netherlands the other day who was greeted by a number of members in Dutch. I think that's awesome.

Chris

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Yes the greeters are the first contact point and increasingly often we get people who do not speak English well or at all. In the last month I have seen Japanese, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Sweedish, German, Nederlands, French and Portugese. Most of these do get some follup messages from the greeters that can help.

We could do with more multilingual greeters and mentors.

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That's awesome, Rhian.

I wonder if it would help recruit more volunteers if we were explicit about this.

That is, lay out that we need exactly this: "We need members to be on call for when a Greeter finds a new member who speaks the given language. The language volunteers would be contacted and invited to welcome the new member."

I think that's basically what already happens -- which, like I said, is awesome -- I'm just thinking we might be able to be clearer and simpler in the recruiting. I don't know.

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The biggest problem is we do not know before they post what language they are going to use, I have added a tool for greeters to check what language it is so they know which language volunteer to approach which should improve things.

The Nederland guest you mention above is now a confirmed member, I translated my confirm script. Just to see if it would help other greeters I tried a Google translate, it was nonesense, it would do wikitree image more harm than good to use it.