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

[Majorly]

2008/5/2 Ryan <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com>:

> Typos won't hurt anyone.  The much bigger problem is that if a change
> doesn't actually reflect what is meant, then that could be translated
> incorrectly, and incorrect information spreads.
>
> One edit to [[m:Board elections/2008/en]] was a well-meant change
> regarding
> the requirements to run for election, changing "2007" to "2008".  The
> contributor assumed that it was copied from last year's page, and hadn't
> been changed.  The problem was, 2007 was /correct/ for that particular
> requirement.
>
> Given the possibility of incorrect translations that could have negative
> effects on voting from some communities, or in the case of the above edit,
> make a user think they're eligible to run when they actually aren't, I
> don't
> think a blanket "don't edit this, please" is unreasonable.<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>
>

That was not a simple typo fix.

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Alex Newman
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