[Foundation-l] Meta-arbcom (was: the foundations of...)

[hillgentleman]

You are expecting too much on the participants.
It is highly possible that many potential participants with important
things to say
would be prevented from contributing.

Best,
H.

On 05/01/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/01/2008, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> > Did somebody try to estimate how serious the problem is? How many editors
> > in language wikipedias are around who do not speak English reasonably good
> > but whose activities are not restricted to their wp edition, they are
> > still active at the meta level, vote for stewards and would be interested
> > in participating in the ArbCom? I guess it is a marginal amount but I do
> > not really have an idea. Does the number of such contributors grow in time
> > or does it go down?
>
> Good questions.
>
> > On the other hand, probably everybody will have to accept that if English
> > is to become lingua franca for the ArbCom, it is broken English.
>
> Certainly. Requiring fluent English would be excessive. As long as it
> is understandable, it doesn't matter if the grammar isn't perfect.
>
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