[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[David Gerard]

On 24/09/06, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:

> Could I remind people not to lose sight of the fact that "international
> participation" is very strong in en:, not only with editors from the USA,
> England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa (where en; is the
> 'native' language) but also India and, frankly, nearly every other country
> around the world.
> one cannot equate "en:" with "English-speaking-countries-only" (and, of
> course, vice-versa.)


And that it's hard enough to get across to people from
non-English-speaking countries that there are Wikipedias other than
the English one. I do what I can when this comes up, but they keep
assuming it ...


- d.