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Translator Nomination Criteria

Hi there. I myself do not think I would contribute enough translations of any language apart from Englishto self nominate, so I assure you my intentions in bringing this up are not out of me rubbing my hands together and wiki cap replacing my pupils. This being said, I feel like the criteria of a minimum of 200 monthly translation edits for 12 months is a bad metric for qualifying for self-nomination and should be changed. I understand that the expectation is for these edits to be "significant and valuable" but it feels too arbitrary and encourages editors to break up larger scale edits into multiple smaller ones to reach a quota of roughly 7 high quality edits per day. Perhaps a metric of bytes changed per month could be better as it can be better reflective of how significant edits are. Now the specific number of bytes can and should be argued over, but somewhere in the ballpark of 50,000-100,000 bytes per month seems reasonable (for reference, the average map page is around 5,000-20,000 bytes excluding templates). User Fisherboy800 Fisherboy.gifUser Fisherboy800 User Talk Page.gifUser Fisherboy800 Contributions.gif 02:48, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Bytes are an even worse metric, updating translations can be negative bytes and languages like Russian and the 2 Chinese languages have 2 bytes per character. Furthermore, sometimes translations omit information (i.e., trivia that doesn't apply to the language) or they simply explain something in way fewer or way more words. These factors all create a big difference per language, unlike simply counting translation edits. If a user edits the same translation about 5 times, but it's all minor wording changes, then it won't be counted as 5 separate edits. If they edit a large article in 10 edits, but they're all big contributions (e.g., the NPC article) then they could all be reasonably counted.
These criteria were carefully chosen and agreed upon by all staff members. Changing these is not as simple as one staff member making an edit.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 10:01, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
That's fair, I did not fully consider the differences in language storage and composition requiring more or less words to explain the same concepts. Knowing this, I agree that this is best metric that is reasonable to understand and audit. However, it could be good to include an example like the one you have listed here as a sub-bullet point just to clarify and be less arbitrary. User Fisherboy800 Fisherboy.gifUser Fisherboy800 User Talk Page.gifUser Fisherboy800 Contributions.gif 22:23, 30 October 2025 (UTC)