[Foundation-l] Notice of the results of the WMF Board ofTrustees election

[Aphaia]

On 7/14/07, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikipedia.be> wrote:
> Sue Reed schreef:
> > But, obviously we don't have the resources internally because it
> > didn't get done. I feel that the Board and/or Election Committee
>
> There are resources to do a lot internally. To communicate to the
> community you need;
> # A message written
> # The message needs to get translated
> # And the message needs to get exposed to the target audience
>
> The message that need to get announced is frequently mush to late
> available for this process to work good. It takes time, a lot of time,
> for a message to spread across the languages and wikis if it happens at all.
>
> There is decent team translators active. The candidates statements are
> translated in many languages and also the related pages about the
> election. On some other places is there also multi languages news to be
> found about the election.
>
> I think the main problem is not the making of the translations but to
> bring that translated information to the attention of the target
> audience. The work is done of making the translations but there a lack
> of followup to do anything with those texts.

Sorry you are wrong I am afraid. At least it is contradicted what we
did and what Philippe explained. To ignore the report from the party
concerned is not a productive way to find a possible solution.

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