On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Nikola Kalchev <nikola.kalchev(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dariusz, thank you for your clarification. I
understand that translations
take time.
Would you please elaborate on the assumption that the most important
principle of the ED search committee was speed and not, e.g. participation
of a larger part of the community? What would the bad effects of a 2 months
longer search on the WMF be?
The assumption is that any organization under an interim leader is
basically frozen. An interim leader is unlikely to make any change. Also,
one of the gripes of the past was a long (way over a year) process of ED
searching. The ED search team wants to avoid repeating this.
I fear that user groups will be underrepresented again (another notable
example is the number of representatives at the WMCON with chapters having
up to four participants and user groups exactly one). There are 59 user
groups and (as well as I could count) only 10 of them will be able to
participate at the survey in their own language. Why was the opinion of 49
user groups considered less worth that a delay of two months?
I think the main assumption may have been that there will be decreasing
differences - that is, the differences between the views expressed in the
10 major languages will not be big in general. Of course, we will see
whether there are significant differences within these 10.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru>
wrote:
Whereas I fully understand and partially share the
sentiment, may I please
repeat the question I asked on this list in relation to a similar topic
some time ago. Could we estimate a number of active community members (whom
we would reasonably expect to participate in the survey) who do not speak
any of the languages to which the survey was translated, to the point that
their ability to fill in the survey would depend on the others? If this is
a considerable number, or if it is less significant but considerably
compromises on the representation, which languages do these community
members speak?
Yaroslav's question is a good one - I don't know from the top of my head
how to estimate this easily. However, let me repeat: we are asking general
questions, and the results are not binding. It is not an issue of
representation. I doubt if there will be huge cultural differences to the
extent that the questionnaire would bring different results if 10 more
languages were added, mainly because I think that wiki-world is quite
hermetic and has a culture of its own.
cheers,
dj