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

[Ray Saintonge]

Majorly wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Who decides whether it is?  It would not be unreasonable to view that 
example as a simple typo fix.  It's only a matter of a single digit in 
the year.  Taking the time to ask about it does no harm. 

Ec