Posting such a link sounds like a very good idea to me - it might raise less irritation than a complete message in english.
teun
On 12/31/06, habj sweetadelaide@gmail.com wrote:
2006/12/29, Teun Spaans teun.spaans@gmail.com:
Perhaps a bot posting sensitive messages into every village pump, simply in english, would be a solution.
My local community is not at all hostile to messages in English on our Village pumps. Such animals drop in every now and then, and not seldom everone will change their language to English to continue discuss the matter - shutting Swedish speakers who do not speak English well out completely from the discussion. We seldom care about this. It is one of our cultural features, I guess.
I would prefer that the bot posted a short message including a link to the major text elsewhere - on Meta, on wikimediafoundation.org, in the mailing list archive or whatever. Actually, I think such an info-bot would be a good idea. If one wants to draw attention to the mailing list as a discussion forum, linking to discussions in mailing list archives is probably a good idea.
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