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