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From: Lewis Cawte <lewiscawte@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Commit access requests
To: Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
My Request

As you'll see in the logs below, I'm basicly interested at this point
in time in maintaining the non-WMF family files in the SVN,

This would be nice. However, I'd like to see a cleanup of unnecessary family files - now we have got generate_family_file.py, I think a lot of files are no longer necessary.

and
working on the i18n translation that I hear you guys are planning to
work on rather soon. As a member of the translatewiki.net staff, and
an active user of pywikipediabot, I think it'd be nice to help out
there.

Of course siebrand and roberthl already are contacts, but more help is always welcome :-)

Now, as a last comment:

On 30/12/10 23:57, Rob Lanphier wrote:
2. The access request is from this person:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ebraminio
Any objections to granting access for this person?

https://sourceforge.net/users/ebraminio

The translation patches are OK, but this one most certainly is not: this patch changes the license from GPL to MIT (!) without checking with the original author(s). Besides, there is no comment on what this actual change does ('hi, this a patch for providing support of links contains unicode character.I am used it and working well for me.') only decribes the end effect, not the reason it works. Especially when working with Unicode<->utf-8 translations, this is important - the current code looks like "We'll sprinkle some encode and decodes around and problems will magically be solved".

I haven't seen Ebraminio on the mailing list or IRC either - so no +1 for Ebraminio from me - at least: not yet.

Thanks,

Merlijn