very good questions !
--- Tomos at Wikipedia wiki_tomos@hotmail.com wrote:
Second, I am wondering if some further clarification might help. Some are not necessary for this time, but nevertheless important issues for the future multilingual voting. So I list them anyway.
Save them ! But there are so many points to clarify that we could limit ourselves to the current situation maybe ?
(1) If we should be a registered user in meta in order to vote.
Not necessarily registered in meta (or loggued in). But it might be interesting to be able to contact the one who voted. And since there are about 30-40 wikipedias now, it's tough to guess who comes from where...
(2) If we should vote in individual language-wiki.
I think we should have the choice to do both. Those who don't speak english will prefer to do it in their language. Those who speak english might do it directly in meta. And some trusted members could transfert votes from individual wiki to meta. Imposing votes to be "registered" only in meta would exclude all those who don't speak english, and this is not the good way.
(3) How to count votes of those who have multiple usernames across multiple languages. (4) If we need any weighing of votes by language - balancing voices from less-populated wikis with populated wikis.
You mean indirectly favoring the situation where the english get "best" when international get "good" ? (Andr�, both "best" and "good" are positive, while "crippling" is negative; getting only "good" for the en, and "best" for the others, does not imply "crippling" the english wikipedia imho, no ?)
I think that should be considered for each issue differently.
For the comma issue, given that it was raised "again" by the japanese and the french (though for very different reasons - yours is a major reason, ours is just a distraction), I think it would be *real* wrong to consider our voices as been half or quarter voices compared to english ones. Even if it ends up being only "good" for en, and best for the japanese.
Another point is that in this case, people (wikipedians) are voting, not the wikipedias themselves (one or several votes for each of them). And many of us participate to at least two wikipedias. So, are we voting thinking of our mother language, or are we voting for the common good ?
(5) If we care preventing a username. (6) If we need some time to make translations of the voting page in multiple languages.
Could we have more than 24 hours to translate, both sides...24 hours in not enough, especially since wikipedia is stuck most of the time during some wikipedia up hours.
Hope this helps,
yes, it was helpful, thanks Tomos
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