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

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

>> Retranslate: No - if we have a case from a project whose participants
>> use
>> French as a second lanugage, simply pick arbitrators who speak french.
>
> If you select a subset of the committee based on languages spoken,
> it's harder to ensure a "fair trial", since it's not a random
> selection. It also removes the benefit of having various points of
> view - the French speaking members are likely to be the members active
> on the French projects, so you lose the wealth of knowledge that
> members of other projects could bring.
>

Even worse: Since in this case we are talking about a conflict that is
impossible to resolve in French wp, having arbitrators who are possibly
active contriburors or admins in French wp just means that they may be a
side of the conflict and it is unlikely that they remain neutral.

Cheers
Yaroslav