On 9/17/06, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
I personally would like rather to provide equal amount of information to "every" language communities. I don't welcome nor that only English editors can access the information about the people they are voting for nor that there is enouous different of amount which voters can consider between editors having English competence and not. It would mean the elected one cannot represent the community as a whole, but not only a part of it, community of a certain language, in the worst case, I am afraid.
Actually, the translation issue is a very strong argument against direct election of Board members. Indirect election, via elected delegates at each project (or other appropriate grouping), would avoid much of this issue. It would also curtail the "popularity effect" of enwiki -- we could use a diminishing-returns allocation of delegates to minimize the "hulking gorilla" effect that enwiki otherwise has on popular polling within Wikimedia.
Kelly