Devouard (gmail), 20/07/2018 12:18:
So, I am thinking that... whilst some of us put little stickers on our badges to indicate we do not want to be taken in picture, perhaps we need to consider also little stickers to put on our badges to indicate that we prefer "a certain physical distance" and warn others that we may be sensitive to closeness so they be aware it might be an issue ?
+1, this is a suggestion worth exploring (is there a feedback page already on the wiki, where to add it?).
If you see a "fi-N" on someone's badge you may remember the advice "Never hug, kiss or touch a Finn" http://www.ediplomat.com/np/cultural_etiquette/ce_fi.htm, but not everybody may be expected to walk around with a cultural etiquette matrix for 200 cultures.
(At Wikimania I usually also wear Wikiquote and sister project stickers and pins so that people are warned that, if they use language which assumes "Wikipedia" or "English [Wikipedia]" or other discriminations of some projects, I will definitely take offense and object to it.)
Federico