Nathan, 26/08/2010 00:01:
It's true that the work of the Language Community
stands out as one of
the few areas of community participation (in that the LangCom members
are not employees of the WMF) closed to public or community
observation.
Few? There are some ten private "community" wikis
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_wikis#Private_wikis with
associated mailing list and an unknown number of private lists (cf.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Standardization#Privacy_options
). Sometimes it makes sense; I don't have an opinion on LangCom.
Nemo