Hello, 2011/2/24 M. Williamson <[email protected]>: > There are currently 13 members of the committee, all of them live in > Europe, the US or Canada with the sole exception of Amir Aharoni, who > currently lives in Jerusalem but lived in Russia until 1991 and whose > native language is Russian. I find it hard to believe that the > language committee has been actively recruiting Wikimedians or others > in Asia, Latin America or Africa but faced constant rejection and lack > of interest from all people in those places, which is the impression I > got from what you said. I think the appropriate reaction to such a > strong imbalance (and it is a very strong one) is not to say "Well, we > will be happy to have them if they ever want to join" but to say "We > recognize that this is an issue and we will actively recruit people to > try to rectify it."
I agree with Mark here. This is also a common issue in many international organisations, and we need to take active steps to correct it for Wikimedia. Best regards, Yann > 2011/2/24, Lodewijk <[email protected]>: >> As far as I am aware, but please correct me if I'm wrong, the language >> committee has always tried to gather a large diversity from all over the >> world. However, it seems hard to find people from underrepresented regions >> to bother themselves with this boring matter (no offense). So if you know a >> good candidate from a region you feel is underrepresented, just put them in >> touch with Gerard and I'm confident they will be able to at least >> incorporate the knowledge. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Lodewijk _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
