[adding foundation-l back to cc]
On 20/12/06, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
Andrey wrote:
We talk about the English-language Wikipedia here, no? Other Wikimedia projects allow usernames in non-Latin scripts, as best I know. For instance, in Russian wikipedia, you may get a username in Cyrillic. Most complaints are from those editors who have a non-Latin username in their national wikipedia and fail to see why they can't keep it in English wikipedia. Best,
Single User Login (SUL) _is_ coming soon. This means that someone with a login on the Russian Wikipedia will be able to have the same username on the English Wikipedia (just as an example). The question is, are we ready for this?
Yeah. I should point out that I do think blocking non-Latin character sets is probably a bad thing, and the only reason it's now done on en: is one way of dealing with bot-vandals. This problem will need addressing sooner rather than later.
Are any of the vandal fighters reading this?
- d.