2009/4/30 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com:
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.