You are expecting too much on the participants. It is highly possible that many potential participants with important things to say would be prevented from contributing.
Best, H.
On 05/01/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/01/2008, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
Did somebody try to estimate how serious the problem is? How many editors in language wikipedias are around who do not speak English reasonably good but whose activities are not restricted to their wp edition, they are still active at the meta level, vote for stewards and would be interested in participating in the ArbCom? I guess it is a marginal amount but I do not really have an idea. Does the number of such contributors grow in time or does it go down?
Good questions.
On the other hand, probably everybody will have to accept that if English is to become lingua franca for the ArbCom, it is broken English.
Certainly. Requiring fluent English would be excessive. As long as it is understandable, it doesn't matter if the grammar isn't perfect.
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