How about starting to unblock the unjustly blocked ones. That would be a great gesture.
Waerth
On 12/23/06, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
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.
I'm not claiming that there aren't valid users who have been blocked. You showed quite clearly that there are... (although there have been some vandals there too, some of the 'valid people' are blocked for vandalism on their home projects! :) )
I was only saying that "There are fewer active users with non-latin names than I expected" but then balencing it with the fact that "The overwealming majority of the non-latin blocks are not to good users being blocked for using their names". I'm not denying that some improvement wouldn't be good. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l