Wikipedia talk:Personal acquaintances

Moving forward; ORCID

Now this page is up and running, how are we going to inform people about it?

Also, is there any scope to make use of ORCID identifiers as part of this project? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:32, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Andy, great you want to move this forward, too!

• ORCID: Sorry, I don't even know what that is. Anything concerning the development of these tools and database belongs to Euku, Ireas and Wiegels - don't know if they have this on their watchlist, nor if they are frequently here on en.wp, you will best reach them on the project's talk page in de.wp, they do all understand English there and there have been some discussions in English and about the technical development in the archives. (E.g. here they said something about developing a direct OAuth method...)
• FORWARD: I have started a Wikimania Project Leaflet - could you pleeaaaase help (as a native speaker?) to complete a better text for it?! Also I have done some improvements for the English language landing page in de.wp and finally succeeded in getting the page imported to Commons:Personal acquaintances - alle the English texts would need major improvement in my eyes to make the project and tools better understandable, but this should be done by native speakers, what I am not... What other suggestions do you have to move this forward? --.js (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

I don't see how to apply ORCID on this project. (I assume that here the Wikipedians should be the scientific authors.) If some Wikipedian says he is author 123X, (s)he has to prove that, but will lose anonymity in the same way. 1) I can't see a simple way to handle that proof. 2) I think ORCID is out of scope of this project. What should someone do when he is ORCID confirmed? --Euku 22:49, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

@Euku: Apologies or the belated response; I have only just noticed your reply. ORCID is not just for scientific authors, but anyone who contributes to research or literature, in science or the humanities That includes Wikipedia and sister projects. Please see WP:ORCID for more. As for anonymity, the use of ORCID would never be mandatory. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

This reminds me of...

Wikipedia:Trust network, from way back in 2004, itself another idea originally built on the German Wikipedia. I'm still sad that didn't take off. — Scott • talk 13:16, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi @Scott: thanks a lot for improving the translation! I have tried to do a shorter, better instruction for the "How does it work? - The rules are very simple:" section ("rules" is the wrong word there, isn't it?):

1. Set your de:Special:Preferences to English language.
2. Go to de:Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-gadgets Section "Veränderung der Oberfläche" and check the box at "Erweiterte Benutzeroberfläche für Persönliche Bekanntschaften aktivieren, um Bestätigungen hier vornehmen zu können." (the only text that has no translation yet afaik).
3. Go to de:Wikipedia:Persönliche Bekanntschaften/neue Anfragen (it will be in English if you followed step 1) and register yourself.
4. Once you have got confirmations by three users you can start confirming yourself. (Post your username into this list to receive bot-messages on your talk page for the confirmations you receive.)

What do you think? Please feel free to add and further improve it. :) --.js (talk) 04:07, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Tidying up the English

I think most of it reads fairly well.

I would like to tidy it up, but I am not sure about a few sentences as I don't know what the original German meaning was trying to convey.

After I fixed a line, I still think there is room for improvement, for example

"Every user can sign up and receive confirmation to their main account, which is known to other users."

Might read better as:

"Every user can sign up and receive the verification of their main account, which is known to other users."

What do others think? NoPolyMath (talk) 20:11, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Your version seems to be a better translation for me, so feel free to make this correction =) Reagrds, --Brackenheim (talk) 18:09, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Would you be so kind to correct the text on this site for me, please? --Brackenheim (talk) 22:19, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

I checked that page, no glaring errors. I was thinking. I might take the main English translation to my sandbox & re-jig completely. Does that sound a better way of doing it? NoPolyMath (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Yes, that sounds good. But if you want, you can correct it directly on the pages. --Brackenheim (talk) 21:51, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Stopped working

Did English version stopped working? https://tools.wmflabs.org/pb/beta/ Thanks for your work! --Toniher (talk) 15:02, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Source code not available

The provided link to the Github repository isn't working anymore. The German FAQ even says so. Can't the source code by copied to a new Github repository?

Translation not working

The tools pages are shown in German whatever our browser language. And since the source code isn't available (see above), we can't check what the problem is. The RedBurn (ϕ) 20:27, 12 October 2017 (UTC)