[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

[Ting Chen]

geni schrieb:
> 2009/2/9 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>:
>   
>> I dislike this argument very much. People cannot choose that they are
>> born in Iran or in China, or in the USA or Europe. Use such a trait that
>> cannot be influence by a person against him is a kind of discrimination.
>>     
>
> True but it's based on reality rather than predudice.
>
>   
>> So long as the person doesn't handle against the rule there is no reason
>> to assume that he would do that. Keep a good faith is one of the
>> principles of how Wikimedians should meet each other.
>>     
>
> Good faith is one thing but we also assume the person we are dealing
> with is human. Realistically the Iranian government is able to put
> enough ah pressure on it's citizens to arrange for them to cooperate
> (this is true for most governments). It is also the case that the
> Iranian government is more likely to do so in a problematical manner
> than western governments.
>
>   
Surely is this a prejudice. Because there is no data that support such 
an assumption. In the eight years since the being of Wikipedia I don't 
know any such case happend on any Wikimedia project.

Ting