Anthere-
5 days is naturally too short a deadline for any
multilingual vote. 7 days is a minimum to find
translators, have translation done, have the
announcement adverstised, and let people time to vote.
I disagree. The creation of a new mailing list is not a major issue, we do
not need to bother every single Wikipedian about it. It's enough to get
feedback from a selected sample of Wikipedians from all major languages.
In response to your earlier concerns of the same nature regarding the edit
summary prefill poll, I had already chosen a deadline of 5 days instead of
the 3 days I used for that poll, to allow for 2 additional days of
translating the very small announcement and proposal. I consider this a
courtesy to you and an attempt to meet you in the middle. I'm not willing
to go any further. If you want a longer deadline, start a vote on the
deadline, and let's use the results of that vote as a precedent for
similar cases in the future.
Regards,
Erik