--- Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/22/06, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
Can you generate a list of non-blocked non-latin usernames that are active editors?
You wanted 20 with at least three edits between September and November who are not blocked?
Okay:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E9%96%93%E4%B9%85%E9%83%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E7%99%BE%E5%AE%B6%E5%A7%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E6%B1%9F%E5%B7%9D%E5%B0%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E3%81%BE%E3%81%AC
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E2%88%9A2
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E2%82%ACpa
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%D0%AA%D1%8B%D1%8C
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%D0%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%92%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%CE%A6
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%CE%A0rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%CE%9A%CE%91%CE%9B%CE%9B%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%CE%88%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%B2%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Macanese%E9%A6%AC%E4%BA%A...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/HOM%D0%AF
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%C2%A3
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/S3%2A%C6%92wN%C3%A2er5
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%21%22%C2%A3%24
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/J%E2%80%A2A%E2%80%A2K
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pag...
So thats 20, there are more.. but I pulled these out of a list of non-ascii names by hand... I also tried to avoid names which were mostly latin characters but used a non-latin for garnish.
Thank you for doing this. This shows it is quite possible to contribute to en.WP with a non-latin username without problems. About half of these have active talk pages which is more than I expected. Clearly the blocks are coming from some admins, while the general en.WP comunity is not going around reporting all non-latin usernames for blocks. I will concede that these blocks are not a en.WP wide practice. I am going to leave a message to the admins who have been setting these blocks suggesting that they start taking them through RfC's as it is disputed that non-latin usernames should be blocked. The responses to such RfC's will tell us more.
Overall there are fewer then I expected.. but there are not all that many in the blocked list that don't look like vandals... so.. ::shrugs::
Please be fair here. Which of my 20 looked like vandals? How many non-vandals do you need to see to acknowledge that people are being blocked just for a non-latin username and not vandalism? How many do you need to see that are blocked with no edits to agree that automatic blocks are happening to non-trivial degree? There were plently left on my list when I stopped at twenty.
Birgitte SB
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