On 03/08/2011 10:25 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > I'd like to see that tested, personally. More than 50% of the > Foundation contributors do not write in English, and don't read > English as a primary language; if this is true, then we should > implement a better solution for foundation-level discussions in other > major language families.
Indeed, language barriers should not be underestimated. But I don't think making foundation-l multilingual would solve any problem: It'd just make this list even more confusing and unclear :) We already have mailing lists in other languages (e.g. WikiDE-l), what's really missing is communications between those lists. (Just to throw in a crazy idea: Informal monthly reports on what's going on in the communities and what's bothering them? And on the other hand a summary of what's being discussed on foundation-l?) A similar problem is software feature requests and bug reports. There's a page on German Wikipedia for new proposals – a useless effort unless someone goes ahead, translates them into English and put them into Bugzilla* (this is infrequently done by some volunteers). --Tobias * although one could even argue that this is useless as well ;) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l