2006/12/14, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com:
If you are willing to help, both the current ones and the translation & updating in future, please list your name on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_an_account_on_the_Foundation_wiki. Board a/o Comcom folks (precisely Mike Snow or me) will be consider your offers.
On that page, it says "To ensure that users are already familiar with the policies of at least one Wikimedia project, only administrators or foundation committee members may apply for an account."
I am not an administrator. I was an admin at Swedish Wikipedia, but stepped down over an affair where we were a bunch of people who wanted to see one of our bureaucrats desysopped. Nobody asked me to step down. I do however not plan to apply for adminship on Swedish Wikipedia again. So, either you make en exception for me regarding editing rights on wikimediafoundation.org, or we create another way of making this doable.
I am not sure if anyone feels xe has the right to decide on such an exception - of course we could limit it to short time. To my knowledge, I was the only one from Swedish Wikipedia or the Swedish speaking projects at all to visit Wikimania this summer. I wrote a summary of it in Swedish, here http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Habj/Wikimania_2006 I was one of the major driving forces behind things like identifying and labelling guideline pages and also creating new ones, and generally increase the activity in the Wikipedia namespace outside of the Village Pump and the Articles for Deletion, and this was one of my main reasons to remain non-admin: I wanted to show that you did not have to be an admin to edit and create pages in the Wikipedia namespace. I also was one of the active people in the first rounds of work for getting us an equivalent of an arbitration committée - not in the last round of the work though. All the people who have been around at Swedish Wikipedia for more than six months know this. You could find some people to ask if I know as much or more about Wikimedia project policies and guidelines as the average administrator, or you could ask Jon Harald Søby from the Norwegian projects who I am. He is a stewart and as he understand Swedish, although he does not write it, I think he knows fairly well who I am in relation to Swedish Wikipedia.
Another way is to just give me the code to the page in question - I can work someplace else and then someone just paste it to the wikimediafoundation.org website. You see, not having editing rights on wikimediafoundation.org does not mean you get the tab "view source", like on pages that are locked for editing. It means I have no access to the code of the page, and have no possibility to add the text in the correct templates etc.
The third way is, I just translate the text and we kindly ask Jon Harald Søby, who understands Swedish well enough to see which parts of the text is what, to put it in the right form with html and templates and God knows what.
If it is not too complicated, please consider to import or copy & paste required materials on meta and set a platform on a page .. so perhaps TR/WMF/Fundraising form 2006 ?
That is in line with my second suggestion.
/habj