I think the system did NOT work for you :) It seems strange to send the same email in several languages. I only received it in Romanian. I think this is taken based on your language preferences (on meta?)
Strainu 2011/6/10 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > Hallo, > > I just received an email (see below) that invites me to participate in > the elections. > > There are several technical issues with it: > > 1. I already voted. It may be a good idea to send this only to people > who didn't. > > 2. The subject says "2009". > > 3. The email is sent in English and Hebrew. I don't know how did the > system find out that that is my preferred language, so it's a bit > weird, but in general i'm happy about this localization. There is > still a problem, however: since the text is bidirectional and this > email is sent in plain text, the Hebrew text is garbled and hardly > readable. One way to solve this is to send the email as HTML and to > define the Hebrew part as dir="rtl". This is relevant for all RTL > languages - Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Divehi and many others. > > Thank you, > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > > > הודעה שהועברה > מאת: Wikimedia Board Elections Committee > <board-electi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > תאריך: 10 ביוני 2011 14:56 > נושא: Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 > אל: Amire80 amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il > > > Dear Amire80, > > You are eligible to vote in the 2011 elections for the Board of > Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates projects such as > Wikipedia. The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is > ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the > Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. > > For more information, please see > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/en . To remove > yourself from future notification, please add your user name at > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list . > </div> > > <div style="{{quote style}}"> > שלום Amire80, > > הנך זכאי להשתתף בבחירות 2011 לחבר הנאמנים של קרן ויקימדיה, המפעילה > מספר מיזמים כגון Wikipedia. > חבר הנאמנים הוא הגוף המחליט הנושא באחריות הכוללת לקיומה של הקרן בטווח > הארוך, ולכן אנו מקבלים בברכה השתתפות רחבה בבחירתו. > > למידע נוסף, אנא ראו please see > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/he . להסרת שמך > מקבלת הודעות דומות בעתיד, אנא צרפו את שמכם בדף > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list . > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l