[Foundation-l] Notice of the results of the WMF BoardofTrustees election

[Philippe Beaudette]

Rupert - 

You offer a very valid solution. Just FYI, and I hope I'm not sounding defensive, because that's not my intention: we did, indeed, put at least two messages on the VP/equivalent on each wikipedia.  We also hit as many of the wikiquote/wiktionary/wikinews/wikibooks, etc sites as we could find, as well.

My IP address has a ton of anonymous posts to wikis for that <grin>.  In some cases it was translated.  In a lot of cases, it wasn't.

phb
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: THURNER rupert 
  To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 
  Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 2:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Notice of the results of the WMF BoardofTrustees election


  On 7/13/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  >
  > Brianna Laugher wrote:
  > > On 13/07/07, Philippe Beaudette <philippebeaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
  > >> Brianna,
  > >>
  > >> We BEGGED for translators.  Aphaia worked hard to find translators.  If
  > the community doesn't step up, there's not a great deal we can do.
  > >
  > > Philippe, my message was about the Board (WMF) and the not the
  > > Election Committee, which I think did a very good job in difficult
  > > circumstances.
  > >
  >
  > I find it a little bit too easy here to blame it on the board. You are a
  > responsible citizen yourself. Why did not you go yourself ask arabic
  > wikipedians to translate the notice ? Why is it necessarily the job of
  > the board ? Don't you think that ANY wikipedian who knows arabic editors
  > is more appropriate and efficient to ask help locally ?
  >
  > What do you suggest that the board does in the future ?


  i'd go for the simple solution:
  make sure that a short english sentence is put on EVERY wikipedia linking to
  a wiki page with detailed description, and wait until somebody translates
  it. this is proven from the beginning of wikipedia.

  i guess the one who has the power of putting the note on top of the
  wikipedias could be blamed for not doing it - but i am unsure what we would
  gain by doing this :)

  rupert
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