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

Sat Jan 5 15:25:44 UTC 2008

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.