It's been quite a while since my last time here. Even though I was always around on discords I have been inactive on INT for a long, long time.

I'm here to put an end to this. I'm back, and ready to serve.

When I started INT back in the days with Grom, I quickly went out of free time to deal with it. And it has been my regret ever since. Since, I ve also retired from my Administrator role in FR due to the lack of free time. Which was a good thing, since I finally focused back on my writing.

But life moved on, and my new job and new life allow me to have way more free time that I had at the creation of INT or when I left the FR staff.

I ve seen Grom call the other day for new staff members, to resurrect a bit INT. This is my chance to finally do what I didn t have the time to do after its création : develop this international project I dreamed about since the Transatlanteam project in 2015.

As said I m still retired staff in FR for now. I m not replacing our current Primary Contact.

I dont know what you guys need here, but I ll gladly help to get it done. I ll let you put a name on that role whatever it will be.

Enjoy your day !

The Italian wiki already decided to create a parallel testing Mediawiki website as an archive for their articles and the French are working to setup a forum. This thread is an invitation for every interested branch to join this international collaborative project to try and develop all the tools and features SCP would need to work perfectly on Mediawiki. A dedicated Discord server will probably be created soon and shared on the Staff channels but it would be useful to know which branches would be interested in actively contributing before we start anything, so please take all the time you need to discuss it among your respective branches' Staff and let me know in #embassy if you are up for it. Thanks in advance!

Organization:

• Platform: EN and DE used Survio, a highly flexible platform but the free account can take max. 100 answers per month. Someone mentioned Google, but I for myself distrust and try to avoid that company. Maybe a self-hostable software?
• Financiation: We will probably need a pro account of sort
• Should we just let INT users participate, or should this be a survey among all branches?

Questions:
• marks multiple choice, […] marks a text field. Note that while all questions are optional, questions regarding private information have an explicit opt-out option for those who have not read the introduction.

Demographics:

Username
- Prefer not to say
- […]

Age
- Prefer not to say
- […]

Gender
- Prefer not to say
- Male
- Female
- Trans-Female
- Other: […]

Sexual orientation
- Prefer not to say
- Heterosexual
- Homosexual
- Bisexual
- Pansexual
- Asexual
- Other: […]

Educational degree
- (Have to research these further)

Country
- (the most common countries of the branches, each branch is asked to tell us where most of their users come from)

Primary language
- English
- Russian
- Korean
- Chinese
- French
- Polish
- Spanish
- Thai
- Japanese
- German
- Italy
- Ukrainian
- Portuguese
- Other: […]

Secondary language(s)
• English
• Russian
• Korean
• Chinese
• French
• Polish
• Spanish
• Thai
• Japanese
• German
• Italy
• Ukrainian
• Portuguese
• Other: […]

INT-related:

What branch(es) do you visit?
• The International Translation Archive (INT)
• English (EN)
• Russian (RU)
• Korean (KO)
• Chinese (CN)
• French (FR)
• Polish (PL)
• Spanish (ES)
• Thai (TH)
• Japanese (JP)
• German (DE)
• Italy (IT)
• Ukrainian (UA)
• Portuguese (PT-BR)
• An unofficial: […]
• None

What are your activities?
• Reading on the English wiki
• Reading on a branch
• Reading on the Translation Archive
• Writing on the English wiki
• Writing on a branch
• Translating for the Translation Archive
• Translating from English for a branch
• Translating from one branch to another
• Creating artworks
• Creating readings (e.g. on YouTube)
• SCP Roleplaying
• I am Staff of the English branch
• I am Staff of an official branch
• I am Staff of an affiliate or unofficial branch
• I do neither
• I do this: […]

What platforms do you use regarding the SCP Foundation?
• The wikis
• Discord
• IRC
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Youtube
• Reddit
• Tumblr
• DeviantArt
• Other: […]

Feedback:

Wiki-Feedback
Is there something you dislike or would change about the INT-Wiki?
• The appearance/theme/style elements
• The structure of the hubs
• The choice of translated articles
• The quality of the articles (not the translation)
• The quality of the translations (not the article itself)
• The Review Team is too slow
• The Review Team does not meet my quality standards
• The administration
• Specify/other: […]

Chat-Feedback
Is there something you dislike or would change about our Discord chat?
• The platform Discord
• Too lax moderation
• Too strict moderation
• Too many channels
• Too few channels
• Too much offtopic
• I dislike the bot KIRA
• KIRA has too few commands (please specify below)
• KIRA has too many commands
• I have a problem with some users
• Specify/other: […]

Survey-Feedback
Would you change something about this survey, or add or remove questions?
- No
- […]

If you could change one thing about the International Translation Archive, what would that be? (please make it short)
- Nothing
- […]

What do you want to keep, what would you change, what would you add?

There is a mock-up of both versions in this sandbox.

It is possible to embedd this box on your wiki if you want, instructions are here.

Let's vote:

1. In the branch box
2. In a separate box
3. Not like this
4. Not at all
5. I need to talk about this first

Anyway feedback for visual enhancement is highly recommended.

I did it mostly bc we had this role in the -FR chan. This is useful to be sure the new users can only access one chan. By doing so, we avoid having troll comings and posting shit in multiple chans. Once they are authentified as "real" members, they can access further chans. Also, it is useless to let people no being part of the community to access writting-help chans.
[…]
we did had trolls spamming pr0n and pro-nazi stuff on -FR, and we were glad they didn't do so in the almost 20 differents chans we had ahah

I personally do not think we need such a role right now. I think an invisible role "limited-access" to limit problematic users to general discussions would be better.

Removing the members role would reduce moderation effort and improve overview. We could make the branch roles visible instead. Because of our lack of trolls it right now only indicated who is a new member (or who didn't manage to add the branch-tag).

Please choose one of the following options (feel free to propose other possibilities):

1. Remove "members" role and add "limited-access" role.
2. Remove "members" role without replacement.
3. Keep the "members" role and limit access to non-members to #general_discussion.
4. Don't change anything.

What should we do about this? I'm seeing the following options:

1. Only latin letters
2. The nickname must start with enough latin letters to easily ping them but may continue with any characters.
3. No restriction
4. Something else (please specify)

The main disagreement at the time, if I recall, was whether or not to post articles to the wiki under their original numbers or to post them in this hub under their original number. My concern was that having a different hub that separated the works from the main wiki would cause it to become a content ghetto that would lower the profile of our hard-working international partners instead of raising it.

But, seeing that we now have a platform to create high-quality English translations, I propose the following: That articles that are found to be "o" quality by the Review Team could be reviewed by this site's administration, or another review board set up by the international community.

If vetted, it could then be posted to a hub that would exist on the main wiki. This would ensure that only high-quality and well-translated works get posted and therefore make the translation hub a place where people can discover the best SCPs the world has to offer.

This hub would probably be able to be linked from the side or top bar of the English SCP Wiki.

• Roget asked in this thread wether or not this site supported original contents. To quote:

Oooh, this is nifty. Is it within this site's purview to host original content, or only translations? I kinda want to write aboot this…

• DrSSS pointed out in this other thread that there is no actual section for artworks by our users.

Given that our community is growing in number and is still working (yay to us), I suggest wether or not to include these two new features in the site, namely

1. A section for original work, or similar
2. A section for original artwork in the forum, or similar

I think some will agree that converting our precious day-month-year or year-month-day to the abomination which is month-day-year is kind of inconvenient.

I propose use of one of the following date formats:

1. yyyy mm dd
2. dd mm yyyy
3. mm dd yyyy

And one of the following separators:

1. "/"
2. "-"
3. "."
4. " "