On Jan 5, 2008 10:24 AM, hillgentleman hillgentleman.wikiversity@gmail.com wrote:
Yaroslav M. Blanter, The problem is not in the committee member but in the community member. That is, requiring participant to use English alone automatically eliminate many participants in a case in their own language project.
Remember, the arbitration committee is a service. Customers are always right.
Best, H.
That is an important factor, yes. Unfortunately the Wikipedia-en ArbCom faces this issues regularly. ArbCom needs to address problems about editor conduct on topics where many of the users come from different localities, speak different native languages with various levels of writing and reading English. Perhaps a meta-arbcom could help communities deal with these editor conduct disputes better since they often spread over multiple projects. What we are talking about is finding a better way to serve the needs of the Community than we are now.
Sydney