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Fwd: board elections : some thoughts
Would anyone object to an incentive for more people to write in
Chinese? ;-) That might not be so bad...

SJ

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From: Erik Moeller <erik_moeller@gmx.de>
Date: May 1, 2005 5:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] board elections : some thoughts
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@wikimedia.org>


David Gerard:

> So I can write a statement in 1000 Chinese characters, and get that
> translated back to English... you sure about this one?

I'm not sure it's a good way to start a campaign by deliberately looking
for loopholes in the rules ;-). I don't think this will be a problem in
practice, but if you want, you can define that the most commonly used
language is used for the count, or you can retain some flexibility in
the enforcement. I'll leave it to the organizers to decide this. What is
important is that there is at least a basic requirement so that people
don't go overboard.

Erik
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Re: board elections : some thoughts [ In reply to ]
On 5/2/05, Sj <2.718281828@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would anyone object to an incentive for more people to write in
> Chinese? ;-) That might not be so bad...
>
> SJ

$B2fF10U(BSJ$BE*9M0F9%!"A3Kt2f620?BgH>2$JFE*0]4|?MITHw4A;z(BFont$B1wEE;;5!!#(B(30 characters in Kanji, two
foreign words, two punctuations)

I agree on SJ's idea is good, but I am also afraid most of
Euro-american Wikipedian has no PC on which they can read Chinese
characters. (26 words)

Back to the topic, I have no reason to oppose a candidate profile
written with 1,000 Chinese characters (or letter),. If it would be
translated into English or other European language, there would be no
huge difference like the above, I assume.
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