[Foundation-l] Meta-arbcom (was: the foundations of...)

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

Did somebody try to estimate how serious the problem is? How many editors
in language wikipedias are around who do not speak English reasonably good
but whose activities are not restricted to their wp edition, they are
still active at the meta level, vote for stewards and would be interested
in participating in the ArbCom? I guess it is a marginal amount but I do
not really have an idea. Does the number of such contributors grow in time
or does it go down?

On the other hand, probably everybody will have to accept that if English
is to become lingua franca for the ArbCom, it is broken English.

Cheers,
Yaroslav

> On 05/01/2008, hillgentleman <hillgentleman.wikiversity at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>   There are alternatives.  For example, every case can be conducted
>> bilingually; where at least one of the languages in is supported
>> by (e.g.) altavista and google translators.
>
> Trying to hold a discussion via an online translator would be a
> nightmare. They are nowhere near good enough for that.
>
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