[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

Bradypus Bradypus_wp at yahoo.fr
Thu Sep 21 06:42:03 UTC 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aphaia" <aphaia at gmail.com>
> and that I object (except "no guarantee" part). As I stated before, it
> means "if you can read language A, you are provided more materials
> than language non-A speakers". On local projects, I found some signs
> some people thought such additional materials would be just a sign of
> those candidates are anglo-centric.
>
> Since the Election is not yet closed, I stop my wording here at this
> moment. But frustration of non-English communities will follow a
> conclusion which may be a nightmare for English people, I predict, and
> perhaps for other language speaking people too.
>
> Considering such reactions and frustrations on non-English speaking
> communities, regarding equal-oppotunity of electrates, I strongly
> oppose this idea.

Mmmmmh, I cannot speak for non english speaking communities as a whole, but 
I don't agree with that. If a <strike>moron</strike> voter feels frustrated 
by that, well let him not vote for the wathever-language-centric candidate.

Bradipus 





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