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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 6:58 PM Zack McCune
<zmccune(a)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?
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