[Foundation-l] Elections email

[Strainu]

I think the system did NOT work for you :) It seems strange to send
the same email in several languages. I only received it in Romanian. I
think this is taken based on your language preferences (on meta?)

Strainu

2011/6/10 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>:
> Hallo,
>
> I just received an email (see below) that invites me to participate in
> the elections.
>
> There are several technical issues with it:
>
> 1. I already voted. It may be a good idea to send this only to people
> who didn't.
>
> 2. The subject says "2009".
>
> 3. The email is sent in English and Hebrew. I don't know how did the
> system find out that that is my preferred language, so it's a bit
> weird, but in general i'm happy about this localization. There is
> still a problem, however: since the text is bidirectional and this
> email is sent in plain text, the Hebrew text is garbled and hardly
> readable. One way to solve this is to send the email as HTML and to
> define the Hebrew part as dir="rtl". This is relevant for all RTL
> languages - Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Divehi and many others.
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> "We're living in pieces,
>  I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
>
>
> ‎הודעה שהועברה‎
> מאת: Wikimedia Board Elections Committee ‎<board-elections at lists.wikimedia.org>‎
> תאריך: 10 ביוני 2011 14:56
> נושא: Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009
> אל: Amire80 ‫amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il‬
>
>
> Dear Amire80,
>
> You are eligible to vote in the 2011 elections for the Board of
> Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates projects such as
> Wikipedia. The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is
> ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the
> Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection.
>
> For more information, please see
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/en . To remove
> yourself from future notification, please add your user name at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list .
> </div>
>
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> שלום Amire80,
>
> הנך זכאי להשתתף בבחירות 2011 לחבר הנאמנים של קרן ויקימדיה, המפעילה
> מספר מיזמים כגון Wikipedia.
> חבר הנאמנים הוא הגוף המחליט הנושא באחריות הכוללת לקיומה של הקרן בטווח
> הארוך, ולכן אנו מקבלים בברכה השתתפות רחבה בבחירתו.
>
> למידע נוסף, אנא ראו please see
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/he . להסרת שמך
> מקבלת הודעות דומות בעתיד, אנא צרפו את שמכם בדף
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list .
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