The voters do not have to know English. The board members of a national organisation do things for which they might or might not need knowledge of foreign languages. As antanana pointed out, five of seven board members of Wikimedia Ukraine know English. The situation is similar in other chapters. Obviously those who know English take care of international projects, but the others must have the possibility to read about all the candidates, because they are also representatives of their community. I am quite sure that each affiliate will be able to find a person to translate the resumes from English into their own language, but I am also quite sure that not everybody would like to do it in the volunteer time.
Лорд Бъмбъри / Nikola Kalchev This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:56 AM, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> > wrote: > > On 2016-03-06 09:26, Gnangarra wrote: > >> > >> You would think though that someone who wanted to represent all of the > >> affiliates would endeavor to have their statement translated into as > many > >> languages as possible to ensure their message got heard by the most > amount > >> of people, even if they did it themselves using one of the many > >> translation > >> programs available. > >> > >> The affiliates if they are transparent will be asking for input from > their > >> members as to who they should be supporting, I'd consider it as > important > >> but also a courtesy to all communities > >> > > > > Do we have a list of languages into which the statements REALLY need to > be > > translated? I would say, with all due respect, that translating it to > > Swedish and Dutch is rather a waste of time, whereas translating for > example > > to Spanish and Italian might indeed help. > > We could use the same list of languages as the process for the > community elected/selected seats? > > This is also being discussed at > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016#Messy_list > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
