Hi Board search folks,
Can you comment in response to the email from Lord Bumbury?
it is difficult for me to respond, as I agree in principle. I think we
should have more than just 9 most dominant languages, and as the bottom
line we should allow for additional translations to be made.
However, the most important principle that the ED search committee assumed
was speed. For quite a while we have been considering if we can afford
several weeks for the survey (with translations, before and after, adding
about a month to our search, over just 1 language version). We decided that
we definitely need input from the communities other than just the English
one, but we made a hard choice to go just for the ones we could have had
speedily translated.
This is highly suboptimal, and I understand Nikola's disappointment. From
my point of view, this is something we need to improve in the future -
perhaps by finding a large, multilanguge translation agency (especially
since the quality of raw output varied and we had to make serious proof
reading with the help of ad hoc volunteers), and also making translating
into some 20-30 languages a default in important cases. This time we wanted
to go with a quick general survey, hoping that the choices we're asking
about will not differ radically between languages (since our culture is
very specific). We will know from the results if this intuition was more or
less right (that is, if there will be significant differences between the
languages we went with).
best,
dj
On Jun 1, 2016 14:21, "Nikola Kalchev"
<nikola.kalchev(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
about the ED search survey [0] I, as a member of an emerging community,
the
Bulgarian one [1], disagree that anyone wants
"to invite also emerging
communities". Translating the survey into "the 9 major languages of our
projects" is not enough. Letting emerging communities participate, and in
my region [2] there are quite a few active ones, who collaborate on some
of
the largest projects in the wikiverse like
Wikimedia CEE Spring [3] and
Wiki Loves Earth [4]. We might not have large communities, but together
we
build a very large and strong one and we work
hard for bringing free
knowledge to the world. Depriving those of our members, who do not know
those "9 major languages" of the right to participate in the discussion
about the future of our global movement, does not make me feel that the
wished change in direction transparency transparency is on track; this
rather makes me feel as in a large corporation where a small group of
people decide about the future of the organisation and pretend to engage
the masses by populistic pseudo-measures.
The only two languages of the 30 countries of Central and Eastern Europe
among those in the survey are Polish and Russian. 838 active Ukrainianian
editors, 658 active Turks, 638 active Czechs, 419 active Serbs, 418
active
Hungarians and 5501 active editors from the
region in total will not be
able to answer in their own language (reference: Wikimedia CEE Spring
2016/Goals <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Goals>)t;).
I plead that the money that we donate be used for translating the
questions
at least in the languages with more than 200
active editors, or at least
that volunteers are allowed to translate the questions. Furthermore I
request that in order to get more input the survey runs for a month
instead
of a week. Important decisions should not be
taken in a hurry.
Best regards,
User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev
Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE Spring International organiser
[0]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director_Tra…
wrote:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Alice Wiegand
<awiegand(a)wikimedia.org
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
>
> > Our survey is currently open in the top 10 wiki languages. A sample
of
> > editors from various languages have
been invited to participate and
we
are
also sending an invitations to anyone here and
through our networks.
Please
participate in the survey and help us to shape
the new ED’s profile.
I read here [1] that the survey will be open for 1 week.
Does that mean it will be open until June 8 (inclusive)?
Saludos,
Luis Sanabria
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director_Tra…
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