2008/11/29 Andrew Turvey <raturvey(a)yahoo.co.uk>uk>:
Most of the people active in Wikimedia UK seem to be
active in the english
Wikimedia projects. However, there are some other smaller Wikimedia
languages where UK editors form a vital part of the editing and readorship
base. I'm thinking particularly of the native languages of the UK such as
Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and maybe Irish, Scots/Ullans, Cornish, Manx etc.
So far the response has been minimal.
The Board has already reached out to these projects by
asking if the
newsletter could be translated into these languages. My suggestion is we set
aside two reserved seats on the Board for people who actively contribute to
at lease one wikimedia project in a minority language of the UK.
What do you think?
No. There are far more editors to the English wikipedia than other
projects and that should be accepted rather than discriminated
against.
In any case last I checked not even cy.wikipedia had an EDP (although
to be fair they had at least talked about it) which gives you some
idea of the size of the community on those projects.
--
geni