Fastfission wrote:
The Babel boxes were really no help in this -- unless I'm totally out of the loop, I don't know of any way to do a JOIN type query in this (i.e. both native German and English speakers), and both of those categories individually have far too many people to look them over in any sort of systematic way. And of course none of that really gets at the question of who has recently edited. In the end I just gave up on trying to find someone (eventually someone the text I wanted translated, which worked just as well, but of course the fact that it was a relatively common language on En helped with that).
Incidentally, a few weeks ago, Pietras1988 at the Polish Wikipedia http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Pietras1988 contacted me (most likely via a Babelbox), asking me to translate a little Polish town called Kurów into Vietnamese. By the looks of the interwiki links on that article now, it looks like Pietras1988 contacted quite a few people. That town now has the distinction of being described in Gothic and Aramaic, of all languages.