On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks > > I hate to interrupt this fruitful discussion about the politically correct way > of resolving languages issues, but can we get back to the issue at hand, > please? > > No one is forbidden from using their native language. For getting help > quickly, > writing in English is probably a good idea. That's all. > > Please keep in mind that a basic level of English is a REQUIREMENT for > getting a > toolserver account, simply for the reason that admins need to be able to > communicate with users directly, and users have to understand rules, > announcements, etc. > > I don't see how a general debate about netiquette in multilingual projects is > relevant to the toolserver list. It's an interesting topic, for sure, but this > isn't the place. English is the lingua franca on the toolserver. We'll all > have > to live with that. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette Well put. But this raises an interesting point: pooling all the sysadmins and such together, how many (and which) languages are spoken by the toolserver administration? Is this something that could be posted somewhere? _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
