I am looking for a volunteer to create a WMC page for French speaking individuals. I believe they should be kept informed with a summary page that we can link to from the main WMC page on meta. I'm looking to move forward with revamping the main page, but would like a French page to link to through this process. Anyone interested, please contact me.
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 22:35 -0500, Alan Walker wrote:
I am looking for a volunteer to create a WMC page for French speaking individuals. I believe they should be kept informed with a summary page that we can link to from the main WMC page on meta.
I'm an anglophone who lives in Montreal, and this offends even me. "Kept informed"? What, while people in the ROC make decisions for them? Gee, how patronizing of us.
Having decisions made in English, and then dictated down to francophones in their own tongue, is probably not going to fly. Let's make sure that at least one French speaker is part of the steering committee, so that we can address the needs of all Canadians.
There's a contact board for Quebec Wikipedians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Quebec_Wikipedians%27_notice_board
I can send out some emails to well-known Quebec Wikipedians, too.
-Evan
Hi Evan,
On Feb 1, 2008 10:55 AM, Evan Prodromou evan@prodromou.name wrote:
Having decisions made in English, and then dictated down to francophones in their own tongue, is probably not going to fly. Let's make sure that at least one French speaker is part of the steering committee, so that we can address the needs of all Canadians.
I can't speak on Alan's behalf, but I think this is intended to seek out and involve francophones rather then alienate them. We didn't have anyone at the IRC meeting that was francophone, but I think the people there were sensitive to this.
There is a lot of work to be done, and we can use additional help. You can be assured that we will be soliciting comments from the francophone community, and it would be fantastic if we could get input. I personally have expended some effort to make sure things have gotten translated and would be delighted if we could get some people involved.
There's a contact board for Quebec Wikipedians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Quebec_Wikipedians%27_notice_board
I can send out some emails to well-known Quebec Wikipedians, too.
Don't forget that not all francophones live in Quebec. I'd appreciate if you'd post a note on the board and by e-mail, and provide a link so we can post it too.
Thanks, Gerald
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