[01:25:08] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kiju1108, replying to raidarr> [1/2] Honestly, it's a pretty tough nut to crack. For people whose native languages are culturally and linguistically distant (and vice versa), the English barrier is massive. Even in the general Japanese job market, finding properly bilingual talent is difficult; filter that down to wiki contributors, and you're basically looking for unicorns. There are plenty of use
[01:25:08] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kiju1108, replying to raidarr> [2/2] rs who can scrape by with asynchronous on-wiki discussions, but the real-time, context-heavy nature of Discord is just way too high of a hurdle for them
[01:26:14] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kiju1108> Raidarr's Adopt a volunteer concept is a solid idea, but trying to run them through a pipeline that basically teaches them "how the English sphere does things" is going to be a steep uphill battle
[01:28:38] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kiju1108> [1/2] One idea is to officially establish an intermediate, scoped-down role — something like a "Local Ambassador" — where bare-minimum English is perfectly fine. Instead of dragging them into complex Meta politics, we flip the script: we approach them with a "tell us how we can use our global tools to help your community" stance. Their main battleground stays strictly limited to their nat
[01:28:38] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kiju1108> [2/2] ive wikis - handling local spam, providing local support, etc
[01:33:30] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kiju1108> Obviously, mentorship is non-negotiable for this to work. If we're strictly talking about Japanese and Chinese, bootstrapping it is actually possible since we currently have one native speaker for each among the volunteers. The bus factor (dependency on specific individuals) for this is insanely high, I know, but frankly, it feels like the only realistic play we have right now
[02:45:42] <MirahezeRelay>	 <pixldev, replying to kiju1108> interesting, I like this
[21:32:38] <MirahezeRelay>	 <hihello_what_are_you_doing_here> Hello, I've done some practice wiki reviews on a user page, if anyone would like to check them out and give me critiques :] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Hihello-what-are-you-doing-here/Requests