On Jul 15, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Should be noted that even barring the extreme of tokenization there is no need to even strive for perfect "representativeness", diversity is well good enough. In this as most things, the perfect is an enemy of the good. We cannot hope for the board to represent equally tiny trial projects and the established mega-projects in our midst, nor ancient dead languages on a par with english; that way lies madness.
Agreed, and we also do not want board members to think of themselves as "representative of Europe" or "representative of Asia" or "representative of Wiktionary" whose job it is to fight for resources on behalf of that group or project. Rather, all board members should try to be globally inclined in every way as much as possible.