Hi there, since I'm, subscribed via digest I have no mail to reply, so here some random ideas (rough brainstorming) about the issues mentioned in the thread 'Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening': * We need to have at least one (leading) person per language to translate the messages. They should be contactable via email as well. Maybe coordinated by a mailing-list. Wasn't there one? * We could "use" the translation power of the folks at betawiki (http://translatewiki.net/ ) * I tried to launch a mentoring programme some months ago, but with no success: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mentoring * Maybe we could include SOME contact people directly in the templates. * What about something like ambassadors? These are just some spontaneous ideas, I wanted to share. Maybe you have some to say about some of them ... Best regards, Flo