On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Majorly axel9891@googlemail.com wrote:
Minor points such as typos, spacing, and anything that doesn't affect the actual wording shouldn't need permission to fix. It is a wiki after all. If someone has translated it without noticing the typo, then it's the problem of the translator, not of the person correcting the mistake.https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Typos won't hurt anyone. The much bigger problem is that if a change doesn't actually reflect what is meant, then that could be translated incorrectly, and incorrect information spreads.
One edit to [[m:Board elections/2008/en]] was a well-meant change regarding the requirements to run for election, changing "2007" to "2008". The contributor assumed that it was copied from last year's page, and hadn't been changed. The problem was, 2007 was /correct/ for that particular requirement.
Given the possibility of incorrect translations that could have negative effects on voting from some communities, or in the case of the above edit, make a user think they're eligible to run when they actually aren't, I don't think a blanket "don't edit this, please" is unreasonable.