Wouter Steenbeek wrote:
Anything posted here must be accessible to all of us, imo.
I don't agree with this. If someone wants to post in a language other than English, I'd rather they do that than not post at all. We would risk missing out on a lot of news and issues from the others Wikipedias if we tried to enforce any sort of English-only policy here. If the message is on this list, it gives other people the opportunity to quickly translate it into English, or any other languages that might be useful to people reading the thread. It would be very difficult to prevent English-only speakers ever seeing another language in a project as multilingual as Wikipedia.
I can very well read your French (but hardly respond in the same language…)
I don't think anyone is claiming you do need to respond in the same language. I've posted English replies to the mailing lists of non-English Wikipedias with no complaints that I'm aware of - or maybe just no complaints I could read ;)
Angela.