Thread:Merrystar/@comment-28083312-20170516084236/@comment-11001-20170516180103

Hi Ursuul. The bulk of our foreign language adoptions are handled by native-speaking helpers and staff; it would be up to them whether they felt your language skills disqualified you, and the answer might well vary from language to language or even from wiki to wiki.

If the wiki in question is in one of the languages which does not have a dedicated adoption page, then it depends on the wiki and your own work there.

I will say that the general opinion of most people with whom I have discussed this issue is that they want their admins to speak the language on which the wiki is based. But I am fundamentally in agreement with you that a non-speaker can make helpful changes and improvements to a wiki, and I have granted rights to non-speakers on abandoned wikis before when I felt that the benefits outweighed the drawbacks.