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1. Ankry – Polish, English, Russian
2. BRUTE – Georgian, English, Russian
3. Candalua – Venetian, Italian, English
4. -jkb- (bureaucrat) – Czech, Slovak, German, English, limited Russian and Spanish
5. Jon Harald Søby – Norwegian, English, Northern Sami, Swahili
6. Jusjih (importer) – Chinese (traditional and simplified), English, French (basic), Korean (learning)
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11. Tpt – French, English
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14. Zyephyrus (bureaucrat) – English, French, limited Spanish
15. अजीत कुमार तिवारी – Hindi, English, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Maithili (Basic), Bengali (Basic)
16. अनिरुद्ध! – Hindi

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1. DeirdreAnne (earlier as Doug) (importer) – English (native), German, French (read, write with great difficulty) – inactive since October 2018
2. LadyInGrey – Spanish – inactive since August 2019
3. Phe – French, English – inactive since February 2018
4. SWilson (WMF) – English – inactive since September 2016

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1. Angela (former steward and board member)
2. Tim Starling (Lead staff developer and System administrator)
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4. Bastique – (steward)
5. VasilievVV – Russian, English
6. ThomasV (developer) – English, French, German (last edit 27 June 2011, last log action 21 February 2011, unanimously desysopped 3 November 2012)

The users below were desysopped after a very long period of inactivity and with no reply and would be expected to go through a nomination and vote before re-appointment

1. Dr Absentius – Greek, French (last edit 2004-04-11, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
2. Menchi (last edit 19 Sep 2004, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
3. Samuel – Chinese (last edit 2004-05-20, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
4. Maveric149 (last edit 2005-02-16, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
5. Kalki (1 edit in 2005, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
6. Ambivalenthysteria (last edit august 2005, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
7. Caton (former account of Marc, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
8. Maveric149 (unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
9. Daniel Mayer (unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)

   NOTE: Maveric149 and Daniel Mayer are the same person.

10. Shin-改 – Japanese (last edit 17 January 2006)
11. GregRobson (last edit 17 January 2006 )
12. Christian S – Danish, English (Reply in Danish to Swedish and Norwegian) (last edit 8 april 2006)
13. Gubbubu – Hungarian with some English and Latin  / Magyar, angol, latin (last edit 7 May 2007 )
14. Marc (formerly/anciennement Caton – French) (last edit 17 March 2007)
15. Zhaladshar (one edit in 2008; last edit 8 August 2007)
16. Shizhao – (former steward) – Chinese, Russian (one edit in 2008; last edit 11 October 2007)
17. Mxn – Vietnamese, Spanish (one edit in 2008)
18. ArnoLagrange – French, Esperanto, English, German (last edit 6 September 2008)
19. Innv – Russian, English (last edit February 2010)
20. ThomasBot – Bot of ThomasV (last edit in September 2010/last log action 7 December 2010, unanimously desysopped 3 November 2012)
21. Maximillion Pegasus – Basic Italian and Spanish (last edit in February 2011/last log action 28 February 2011, unanimously desysopped 3 November 2012)
22. វ័ណថារិទ្ធ – Khmer, English (last edit: 2015-01-21; last log action: 2014-06-14, desysopped 3 March 2017)
23. Dovi – English, Hebrew, basic French (last log action: 2015-11-19, desysopped 3 March 2017)
24. John Vandenberg (developer) – English – (last edit: 2016-05-26, desysopped 30 August 2018)

1. Eclecticology – (also former bureaucrat) (last edit: 2013-08-18; last log action: 2011-03-24; passed away 12 September 2016)

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Minorax (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights)

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Requesting for translation admin rights to help out at Special:PageTranslation. I have similar rights at (most) wikis that have this extension enabled. --Minorax (talk) 01:40, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do we actually need somebody with "translation admin rights" here? In fact, I have no idea... -jkb- (talk) 16:46, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@-jkb-: There are several pages marked for translation but hasn’t been approved by a translation admin. Minorax (talk) 22:59, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm really not sure how to proceed this request. @Ooswesthoesbes, Zyephyrus, Koavf, Mahagaja, Ankry: et al, your oppinion, please. Thx, -jkb- (talk) 20:06, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• I have no idea what a translation admin is or does. —Mahāgaja · talk 20:36, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mahagaja: see [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights here), the thread "Übersetzungsadministratoren"

one more ping, also @ Zyephyrus: see here in German. -jkb- (talk) 22:07, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• It's fine to give translation admin rights here and in fact, it is something that we should do in principle (i.e. without necessarily saying that this user should have them in this instance). Since many help and project pages are written in English but this is supposed to be a multilingual wiki, it's important to have translation admins who can translate our policies into other languages. Furthermore, I recall having seen Minorax around and I think he's a reliable editor, so if he's claiming language competency in something, then I say believe him until we know otherwise. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:10, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My problem as well. More over, I am not sure, if their task is to approve transalations on wikisource (might be on wikipedia projects, ok...), where the most users that are active in this or that language, couldn't make it better according to thei needs. -jkb- (talk) 20:41, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Minorax,

1. Can you give some links to translations you have done?

2. Can you answer this question copied from my talk page?

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Début de citation

Main Page/Walloon

Bonjour Zyephyrus, et tous mes meilleurs vœux pour cette nouvelle année qui débute.

Petite question : maintenant que le projet est sur son propre domaine, faut-il faire la demande pour supprimer toutes les pages relatives au projet, ou est-ce que ça se fait automatiquement après un certain temps ? Reptilien.19831209BE1 (talk) 13:04, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fin de citation

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Regards,

--Zyephyrus (talk) 21:11, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Two questions, @Minorax::

1. which languages can you speak?
2. do you know which languages are common here at oldwikisource?

Thanks, -jkb- (talk) 23:01, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Zyephyrus: See mw:Special:Contribs/Minorax. As for what the quote, it roughly translates to "Hello Zyephyrus, Happy New Year. Quick question: now that the Walloon wikisource has its own subdomain, would the related pages here be deleted, or is it done automatically after a certain time?"

@-jkb-: I speak English (en) and Mandarin Chinese (zh) and have some (little) knowledge for Korean (ko), Malay (ms) & French (fr). As for the second part, I have no idea.

The main purpose of the translation extension is to just simply make the page available to be translated into other languages by other editors. Wikisource:Bots is one of the few pages that has been marked for translation and is available in other languages, such as Italian & Chinese. --Minorax (talk) 23:58, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Koavf, this is a multilingual wiki, so there is a very good reason to have translation admins, and I think Minorax is a user that can be trusted. So I so no reason not to do that. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 07:30, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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John Vandenberg (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights) (last edit: 2016-05-26; last log action: 2015-04-10) CrossActivity – EditStats – GUC – SUL

User notified. Ankry (talk) 14:11, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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• Desysop per over two-year inactivity (however he is still active in English Wikipedia). Ankry (talk) 14:12, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• On hold. Let's await whether he responds. Otherwise, desysop. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 15:26, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• On hold per Ooswesthoesbes.--Jusjih (talk) 04:10, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's been two weeks and I've seen no reaction, so I'll go ahead and make a request at meta to desysop this user. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 09:53, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

this seems to be Done billinghurst sDrewth 03:45, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]