--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Let's take the "Stewards" discussion and
vote as an example. The whole
discussion was mostly English as was the voting page. If we used
subdomains, we could have made it a requirement that the page be
translated into the main languages before we vote. We could have
aggregated the votes from the different language Wikimedias so that each
community could express their preferences in their language. We could have
translated important arguments from the discussion in realtime (in the
form of localized "pro" and "cons" lists, for example).
This could much more easily be coordinated on one wiki so long as everybody
sees the interface in their own language. This is especially useful and
convenient for multi-lingual people, who are the glue that bind us together.
Meta is a convenient, but currently flawed, substrate. A few improvements will
do wonders.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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