[Foundation-l] Elections email

[Lodewijk]

I think it is based on your home project :) I voted from meta, but got an
email in Dutch - which is almost only on nlwiki my preferred language. I
made some other suggestions on how to improve the email next time, maybe it
would make sense to collect other suggestions there too:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2011#Email

Best regards,

Lodewijk

2011/6/10 Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com>

> 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>
> >
> > <div style="{{quote style}}">
> > 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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