[Foundation-l] Modification of the official board election page

Majorly axel9891 at googlemail.com
Fri May 2 14:46:39 UTC 2008


2008/5/2 Kwan Ting Chan <ktc at ktchan.info>:

> The Election Committee would like to ask the community of administrator
> on Meta to refrain from editing the English version of the Board
> election page [[m:Board elections/2008/en]].
>
> The page was protected by the committee as it contain the official rules
> for the election, and is the source for translations. Its current
> wording and formatting is what's agreed by the committee.
>
> Of course, if you spot anything which you think may be an error, any
> ambiguity, or any points which you feel should be modified, feel free to
> suggest it to the election committee either on the talk page, on this
> list, or straight to the election committee. However, please take into
> account any changes to the page requires all the translations to be
> updated and hence it is unlikely the page will be modify simply for
> small grammatical changes.
>
> For the election committee,
>
> Kwan Ting Chan - [[m:User:KTC]]<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>
>

Minor points such as typos, spacing, and anything that doesn't affect the
actual wording shouldn't need permission to fix. It is a wiki after all. If
someone has translated it without noticing the typo, then it's the problem
of the translator, not of the person correcting the mistake.

-- 
Alex Newman
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Majorly


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