[Foundation-l] spamming of the english wikipedia users detected

[Dan Rosenthal]

I think Andrew Gray has a very good point, in that it would  
drastically increase the amount of people aware of the elections, at  
the cost of only the time of the translators, and the people doing  
the porting to the different projects, which should not be very  
difficult anyway.

-Dan
On Jul 3, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:

> On 03/07/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> While I spent one paragraph of my message to Enwiki eligible users
>> making the point of why it is important in particular for them to
>> participate, my view is that we all need to participate. I worked on
>> English because it had such a large problem, because it is the
>> language I speak well, and because it is a community I have been a
>> part of.  Other, more qualified, people have been addressing turnout
>> in other languages.
>
> ...and, presumably, you'd be more than happy to run the process on any
> other project if someone provided you with a local translation of the
> necessary text? The checking process ought to be pretty much portable.
>
> I think perhaps this might be a rather sensible thing to try and do
> from the outset, next time, on as many projects as practical. It
> allows a much less ambiguous explanation than one line in sitenotice -
> it's almost impossible to have a good succinct explanation there which
> doesn't provide scope for misunderstanding or make it look like
> *everyone* is eligible.
>
> -- 
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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