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

[hillgentleman]

Yaroslav M. Blanter,
The problem is not in the committee member but in the community member.
That is, requiring participant  to use English alone automatically eliminate
many participants in a case  in their own language project.

Remember, the arbitration committee is a service.  Customers are always right.

Best,
H.



On 05/01/2008, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> 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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