[00:04:05] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to raidarr> [1/4] I think we are doing better recently with both PB and Elisapoly from east (southeast?) Asia. Plus, I'm from east Asia too and can deal with Chinese users if needed.
[00:04:05] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to raidarr> [2/4] Japanese users tend to use their local farms (atwiki), same goes for Chinese users (Huiji, bwiki, moegirlpedia, Baidu Baike). There isn't much we can do: we are an English-centric farm and cannot offer the same level of accommodation as a platform catering specifically to Chinese/Japanese users. How much that can be improved (and how) I'm not sure.
[00:04:05] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to raidarr> [3/4] I observe lots of traffic coming from Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia. Despite together accounting for about 1/2 of total US traffic, they barely get any representation among our volunteers. We have 6 tech living in the US (by my estimate) but 0 living in SE Asia. How that can be improved I'm al
[00:04:06] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to raidarr> [4/4] so not sure. Somehow we just have a ton of volunteers from the US (and UK when it comes to Tech).
[00:35:42] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr, replying to posix_memalign> I don't know elisapoly well which I probably should as they seem like a good pick, I know PB is definitely a big boon to CVT
[00:35:54] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> will have to keep in mind you have chinese proficiency as well
[00:54:29] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign> [1/3] Would love to know how we can get users from this region to volunteer.
[00:54:30] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign> [2/3] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1225560610628964423/1497400373583937546/image.png?ex=69ed6245&is=69ec10c5&hm=a1a877e646129c6562fdb837811eb27c9a4a9168b236e165e51b43bd473712a5&
[00:54:30] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign> [3/3] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1225560610628964423/1497400374024474736/image.png?ex=69ed6245&is=69ec10c5&hm=8b024832415f610eaaec0a24826f9ff3b0e467605defe959008ec84e869ce0f4&
[01:44:02] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser, replying to posix_memalign> daily and monthly users right?
[01:55:27] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign> Nope. Weekly users on Stella Sora Wiki and Blue Archive Wiki.
[01:58:22] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser, replying to raidarr> [1/3] oh, so that's what you meant
[01:58:22] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser, replying to raidarr> [2/3] honestly having representatives for specific languages is always nice since not everyone is good at English, though I didn't expect that nobody from those regions is interested in becoming a volunteer here, I'll assume language barrier wards off people here
[01:58:23] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser, replying to raidarr> [3/3] Though multiple techs having the same timezone isn't bad imo - more manpower to assist each other when it's needed to
[02:00:45] <MirahezeRelay>	 <emiliers> A lot of our editors are also from SEA, though I think we have more SEA than, say, EA is that SEA tends to have more English speakers imo.
[03:50:09] <MirahezeRelay>	 <pixldev, replying to raidarr> languages are weird
[03:57:12] <MirahezeRelay>	 <elisapoly> hi I is from Malaysia. I is speak England
[03:57:34] <MirahezeRelay>	 <isaiahkingoflames_00614> Indeed
[08:29:17] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr, replying to justanotherdarkmodeuser> not really, in other messages I went back on the point and this was kind of a tangent
[15:48:02] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13, replying to posix_memalign> Wow, a lot of Indonesia
[15:50:39] <MirahezeRelay>	 <unai, replying to raidarr> Spanish here
[17:43:49] <MirahezeRelay>	 <deniel8304> discordapp.com/invite/ygs4Pzt7WM
[17:43:50] <MirahezeRelay>	 <Dyno#3861> @deniel8304 No invite links.
[17:55:48] <MirahezeRelay>	 <ajtheanointed> discordapp.com/invite/ygs4Pzt7WM
[17:55:49] <MirahezeRelay>	 <Dyno#3861> @ajtheanointed No invite links.
[21:39:01] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr, replying to posix_memalign> I forgot thailand, those have come up a couple times, but philippines-malaysia I'm not familiar
[21:39:14] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> I think I've only come across maybe one or two wikis involving the former
[21:39:34] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> malaysia iirc has some very shit internet laws and is a fragile place for our service
[21:39:47] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> not that the description doesn't fit a whole lot of places
[21:40:04] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> not least the UK and various US states
[21:42:38] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> and we do have some pretty well established russian mirahezians so fighting the odds there wouldn't be new either
[22:07:57] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to posix_memalign> The second wiki in the screenshot has several SEA editors with a handful from the US. Unfortunately that proportion doesn't transfer to global volunteers. Most of tech is either from the US or Europe, with a lot of Brits and only one tech not in either region. The board meanwhile is close to consisting solely of US folks.
[22:13:21] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign> [1/2] With the population size of China and Japan it's easier to have a corner of the internet consisting solely of speakers of their respective languages. For less popular languages interacting with the larger, English-speaking internet is necessary since not enough content is produced in their native language.
[22:13:21] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign> [2/2] That's my hypothesis for our large SEA user base despite not having many wikis in Thai or Vietnamese. Still doesn't explain the lack of global volunteers, though.
[22:18:13] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> [1/3] meta itself being so english centric, and true integration of other languages making it harder for said english centric audience to operate, probably is a major role in a self-perpetuating loop on meta which is the sourcing demographic for global volunteers. I would imagine for someone not speaking english the day to day operation of meta is a hassle at best and would require a trans
[22:18:14] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> [2/3] lator to function which I imagine would be discouraging. As it is right now the candidates that would stand a chance need working english beyond just google translate and their native language which I'd guess is a relatively slim pool in those metrics. Similar could be said for how discord functions, less since we have no mechanism to translate any aspect here, and there's not really
[22:18:14] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> [3/3]  any other space. One person did try to make a chinese space iirc, but there were no volunteers to lend it credibility so it never lived and it went with its founder when they became inactive.
[22:22:06] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> [1/2] It's hard enough for us to get volunteers in general so what we do get is often those who 'gravitate' easiest culturally which naturally leans towards people from US/EU leaning UK backgrounds. Maybe @kiju1108 could weigh in as the highest ranking demographic 'outlier' who could weigh in with their thoughts on all this. The Pioneer could be interesting but I don't know if he is around
[22:22:07] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> [2/2]  or would be receptive to a ping at this point. And maybe there's others here who could comment, maybe some of the newer arrivals though I don't want to just ping everyone I can think of at the moment