It's true that the work of the Language Community stands out as one of the few areas of community participation (in that the LangCom members are not employees of the WMF) closed to public or community observation. Certain other groups do this (the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee comes to mind, as do checkuser lists, because of the private information potentially disclosed to these groups) but the reasoning used to censor the LangCom records is... quirky, to say the least. I think most everyone would be more comfortable if the committee performed its work in the open -- aside, I suppose, from those committee members who prefer to be protected from scrutiny.
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