--- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Matt R schreef:
> A lot Wikipedia thinking rests on associating knowledge of users with their
> name <snip>
Do you really believe that people remember who they
worked with last
year on an article? Given the sheer multitude of people only a tiny core
of people are known. They are the "power users" of a project.
I recognise plenty of users by name, even people who aren't "power users",
and
yes, even people I haven't worked with for a while. I'll say it again: a lot of
Wikipedia thinking rests on associating knowledge of users with their username.
Names are part of the framework of how a community interacts.
Because of this, whether by technical means or by policy, we need to ensure
that usernames on a single-language wiki are going to be widely comprehensible
to speakers of that wiki's language.
-- Matt
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto
Blog:
http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
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