[Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

> Is it really only a problem of language?
> Why should the WMF meet ArbCom members, for instance? It doesn't seem
> a suitable way to understand a community. I'm not saying that there
> are easy alternatives of course. :-)
>
> Nemo
>
For instance, Russian Wikipedia community is strongly divided for 
already quite some time, with one fraction being systematically elected 
to form the majority of ArbCom, and another fraction holding the chapter 
and consequently having better access to the WMF. I just can not see who 
could be the person hired by the Foundation to figure out what the 
situation actually is.

Cheers
Yaroslav