[Foundation-l] Meta-arbcom

[Ray Saintonge]

Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>>> 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.
Not only that the arbitrators must be familiar with the rules and 
practices of the project in question.  It is not enough to read the 
languages.  I don't even know of any instances where the en:Arbcom has 
ruled on any problem arising in one of the other English languafe sister 
projects.  If it tried to impose en:wp practices on any of them I'm sure 
there would be a storm of controversy.

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