Portal talk:Foreign Language Learning/Participant Coordination

Clearing inactive
Some users on this pages listed there names at the beginging of the formation and have never come back since. Should list be cleared?--Balloonguy 23:04, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe they are working through the lessons? Perhaps if participants have not contributed in over a year they could be cleared. Jonathan Webley 06:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Some of the lists are quite large...maybe we should put them into subpages instead? --HappyCamper 03:20, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I like that idea. Reduces clutter.
 * It would appear that some of the languages listed haven't been started yet, and also that there are (clearly) languages missing. I'm interested in learning Romanian, so I'm going to add it to the list, and if anyone sees something wrong with that, just let me know. Opiaterein 18:02, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Some of the languages, such as French, have their own pages. This page provides a place for other unorganized and smaller languages to recruit participants.  It is recommended that the more active languages create a page for this sort of thing, and send participants thither.  The Jade Knight 07:38, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree! I've commented out the "participants" with no activity in the last year. I encourage the other languages to do the same.
 * I think we can even remove the language projects that are inactive. This kind of coordination between temporally seperate contributors has little use. --Swift 11:39, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, these lists are great recruiting tools for when languages become active—many people that haven't been around editing at Wikiversity in ages showed up at the French mentoring program when that launched; I had used the "email" feature to contact several of them, and left messages on the talk pages of all. The lists may be dormant, but they are still useful in 1:  showing interest over time, and 2: providing a list of potential participants for anyone that wants to kick-start a project.  As such, I'm going to undo your commenting of stuff.  The Jade Knight (d'viser) 04:08, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * On second thought, as you've done this only for Japanese, I'm leaving it be, as you seem to be involved in that project. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 04:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Useful Templates and Techniques
Would this be a useful section? Including for example:


 * Translations - tutorial - a navigation bar to translations of a page.
 * Category:Language templates


 * They would likely be useful, but I'm not convinced they would be useful here at Participant Coordination. What are your thoughts?  The Jade Knight (d'viser) 18:59, 30 August 2009 (UTC)