[Commons-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Florence Devouard]

Rama Rama wrote:
> Oldak, this is the mailing list of Commons. This is not a political 
> mailing list. Beside the fact that you views of Zionism are simplistic 
> and wrong, it is not the emotions of Zionists that we want to keep out 
> of here, but the emotions of *all* politically-driven people. Be they 
> tenants of the Israeli right-wing and far-right-wing, or their opponents.
> 
> Pedro and Gizmo, this is a *mailing list*, not a private channel; and it 
> is the mailing list of Wikimedia Commons, which is, indeed, 
> multi-lingual. Meaning that people from all language interact here. If 
> you are speaking to everybody, it is common sense and courtesy to use a 
> lingua franca that everybody understands. If you are not speaking to 
> everybody, it is common sense and courtesy to bring the discussion to 
> some private place where it belongs.
> 
> -- Rama

Again. I disagree.
Commons is a multilingual project. As such, the list is also 
multilingual. It is up to them to consider that very few can read what 
they write. They can also consider adding a warning in the topic line so 
that people do not bother opening the message.

But if a project is multilingual, then multilingualism should be okay.

Ant