User:Alien333

I edit some things from time to time. I do not know about most things I translate on MediaWiki, so please tell me if I understood something wrong.

I am mostly on wikisource doing a few things, and on MediaWiki where I help translate (slowly, but surely!) a diversity of things from english into french. (I am originally from the frech wikipedia). Lately, I've also tried, because why not, to try and get rid of the small pages to be able to focus about the biggest ones (namely the manual, the extensions, the help pages, Growth, and the API) later. Currently, I've translated everything with less than 21 messages. I have around 7000 edits total. (7/6/2023)

I came across this the other day, for other new people, it seems a good bit of advice:

In general, no one expects an editor with under 500 edits to have a clue, including understanding how much there is you don't have a clue about. At this level, we expect only that you show willingness to learn and accept advice.

Around 1000 edits, we expect you to realize there's a lot you don't have a clue about still. We expect you to at minimum have a dim idea of the fact you're a bit clueless. We still expect you'll make a lot of mistakes. But we expect you to be realizing you may not understand much of what's going on around you on Wikipedia.

Around 2000 edits, we expect you to be showing signs of actively trying to get a clue -- that is, to have an idea of your own cluelessness and to be trying to rectify that by checking policy before you post at AfD, RfA, DRV, noticeboards, and talk pages. We don't expect you to consistently know what you're talking about, but we do expect that you've learned that maybe listening is better than talking if you aren't sure.

Around 5000 edits, we expect you to be pretty good at knowing what you don't know, to recognize when a discussion involves the things you don't know, and to read rather than posting in those discussions. We expect you at this point to be showing you do actually have a clue.

Around 10,000 edits, we expect you to be able to post, usually cluefully, in many discussions, and to usually recognize when you shouldn't be talking because you're aren't clued-in enough on the topic. Again we don't expect you to know every policy and guideline and be able to quote them off; we don't expect you never to post a silly opinion. We never expect that of anyone. We all occasionally look clueless. We just expect that most of the time you'll be posting cluefully. A big part of that is admitting when you've said or done something clueless.

(From Wikipedia:Having a clue). Maybe there should be a link to this on the newcomer page.

If someone is reading this, do you know if I'm the only one translating from english to french on MediaWiki ? I feel like that's not plausible, but I don't think the numbers (of messages to translate) are going down.

Also, I really would like the translating system in Wikipedia to be better, because now it it frankly easier to just not use it and create a page on your own. That would allow me to switch back to translating a subject I (most of the time) don't need specific techincal knowledge to understand, and therefore, translate correctly.