Hoi, I do not translate but I do care. What I personally do is include data in a structured manner. I do it for things I more or less care about.. It does include awards, educated at, employed by, Ottoman history, Africa, science.. The point in what I do is that much of these structures can be represented in any and all languages, it is just a matter of adding labels.
People may think that I do not like Wikipedia but I do. People may think that I do not like the WMF but I do. It is just that we could do better. The best of us are all united in this. I also think that most of us do not need to be told what to work on. For me the WMF is an enabler. It makes things possible. I do not mind them to do different things from what I want as long as I can do what I care about. I just want them to understand their own/our bias.
As to the community, what community? Also opinions are a dime a dozen. More relevant are the underpinning arguments and truly shelve those opinions when we are done with these arguments. Thanks, GerardM
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 12:50, Dan Szymborski dszymborski@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 6:58 PM Zack McCune zmccune@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi GerardM,
Indeed!
As I mentioned in my earlier message, the process will be multilingual.
We
want to ensure that as many people as possible from across the movement have the opportunity to participate, so we are working hard to make that happen. When it comes to naming in particular, we need to understand the localization opportunities and challenges of the different proposals in order to arrive at a system that works globally. We are having both the survey and the proposals translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Russian and Spanish.
To be perfectly honest, while I'm not a professional translator, it can't certainly can't take that many hours of work to translate "the board is going to pick whatever name they want, irrespective of anything the communities offer" into many languages.
Seriously, why all the theater? The board cared little for how the community felt about the initial name change proposal, code of conduct, and crammed the 2030 project so aggressively down the throats of the community that even the most deluded as to the state of affairs saw it was pointless to offer any additional feedback. There's still no transparency for board conflicts-of-interest during the Fram incident or the capricious and arbitrary extension of the term of community board seats.
Every single person reading this knows that the board is going to do whatever it wants anyway, so why insult the community with the pretense that any opinions of the community actually matter? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe