I completely agree with Ray here. If a document have an official effects, people who are legitimately in charge of the matter should take care, and the others are welcome to point out unclear passages, and any kind of possible errors including grammatical.
But it is not you, Majorly, or me, which is a minor change and which is not. Both you and I are no member of that committee. It is their tasks, let them do their own work.
And I would add this rigidity has been a tradition, afaik, since the first Board election was held. As far as I know, Election committees in each year unanimously have supported this idea, exactly Ray explained in his mails.
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Majorly wrote:
2008/5/2 Ryan wiki.ral315@gmail.com:
Typos won't hurt anyone. The much bigger problem is that if a change doesn't actually reflect what is meant, then that could be translated incorrectly, and incorrect information spreads.
One edit to [[m:Board elections/2008/en]] was a well-meant change regarding the requirements to run for election, changing "2007" to "2008". The contributor assumed that it was copied from last year's page, and hadn't been changed. The problem was, 2007 was /correct/ for that particular requirement.
Given the possibility of incorrect translations that could have negative effects on voting from some communities, or in the case of the above edit, make a user think they're eligible to run when they actually aren't, I don't think a blanket "don't edit this, please" is unreasonable.https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
That was not a simple typo fix.
Who decides whether it is? It would not be unreasonable to view that example as a simple typo fix. It's only a matter of a single digit in the year. Taking the time to ask about it does no harm.
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