ORCID: Sorry, I don't even know what that is. Anything concerning the development of these tools and database belongs to Euku, Ireas and Wiegels - don't know if they have this on their watchlist, nor if they are frequently here on en.wp, you will best reach them on the project's talk page in de.wp, they do all understand English there and there have been some discussions in English and about the technical development in the archives. (E.g. here they said something about developing a direct OAuth method...)
FORWARD: I have started a Wikimania Project Leaflet - could you pleeaaaase help (as a native speaker?) to complete a better text for it?! Also I have done some improvements for the English language landing page in de.wp and finally succeeded in getting the page imported to Commons:Personal acquaintances - alle the English texts would need major improvement in my eyes to make the project and tools better understandable, but this should be done by native speakers, what I am not... What other suggestions do you have to move this forward? --.js (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see how to apply ORCID on this project. (I assume that here the Wikipedians should be the scientific authors.) If some Wikipedian says he is author 123X, (s)he has to prove that, but will lose anonymity in the same way. 1) I can't see a simple way to handle that proof. 2) I think ORCID is out of scope of this project. What should someone do when he is ORCID confirmed? --Euku22:49, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Euku: Apologies or the belated response; I have only just noticed your reply. ORCID is not just for scientific authors, but anyone who contributes to research or literature, in science or the humanities That includes Wikipedia and sister projects. Please see WP:ORCID for more. As for anonymity, the use of ORCID would never be mandatory. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits20:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi@Scott: thanks a lot for improving the translation! I have tried to do a shorter, better instruction for the "How does it work? - The rules are very simple:" section ("rules" is the wrong word there, isn't it?):
Go to de:Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-gadgets Section『Veränderung der Oberfläche』and check the box at『Erweiterte Benutzeroberfläche für Persönliche Bekanntschaften aktivieren, um Bestätigungen hier vornehmen zu können.』(the only text that has no translation yet afaik).
Once you have got confirmations by three users you can start confirming yourself. (Post your username into this list to receive bot-messages on your talk page for the confirmations you receive.)
I checked that page, no glaring errors. I was thinking. I might take the main English translation to my sandbox & re-jig completely. Does that sound a better way of doing it? NoPolyMath (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The provided link to the Github repository isn't working anymore. The German FAQ even says so. Can't the source code by copied to a new Github repository?