Rama Rama wrote:
Pedro and Gizmo, this is a *mailing list*, not a private channel; and it is the mailing list of Wikimedia Commons, which is, indeed, multi-lingual. Meaning that people from all language interact here. If you are speaking to everybody, it is common sense and courtesy to use a lingua franca that everybody understands. If you are not speaking to everybody, it is common sense and courtesy to bring the discussion to some private place where it belongs.
-- Rama
Again. I disagree. Commons is a multilingual project. As such, the list is also multilingual. It is up to them to consider that very few can read what they write. They can also consider adding a warning in the topic line so that people do not bother opening the message.
But if a project is multilingual, then multilingualism should be okay.
Minusta ei oikein voi sanoa samalla kertaa, että projekti on monikielinen ja jokainen voi käyttää omaa kieltään, ja että jos ei tule ymmärretyksi omalla kielellään, se on oma vika.
Translated: I don't quite think you can, at the same time, say that a project is multilingual and you can use your own language, and that if you are not understood, it's your own fault.