2009/4/30 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some
300-year stances on
knowledge dissemination,
Did you mean 300 years? 3 years is hard enough in our line of work, 30
would be a real challenge, 300 is simply impossible. I'm assuming that
was a typo...
* There is
also a big question about languages. The work will need to
be done in English,
Can you elaborate a bit? Could a group that all speak better French
than English not do their work in French and have it translated for
others? I would hope the language issue could be phrased as "All
work will need to be translated into English as a shared working
language"...
If, by coincidence, there happens to be a group better able to
communicate in French than English, then I don't see why they
shouldn't be able to, but it is pretty unlikely. I would advise
against choosing committees along language lines, a diverse membership
of each committee would be far better.