On 29/01/07, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Actually, to a large extent they do. Remember that most articles in
en:wp have been shown (Greg Maxwell ran the numbers in January 2006)
to be largely written by only a few users.
Come on, so you can call them thingybobs, the
right name for this
attitude is discrimination. People are demanding things; they want to be
known by their own user ID.
I remember that you were the sole voice against having them
identifiable to other users who did not happen to be able to read that
script.
It is not realistic to require of all editors on the English Wikipedia
to be able to read every script in all of Unicode to be able to work
with others on a project written in a Latin script language.
- d.
Hoi,
I do not have a problem to be a lonely voice that identifies
discrimination where I see it. I prefer to be seen as someone who does
make himself heard than someone who mutters in the background.
What you call unrealistic is basically something that is something that
people do not do anyway. People on the English Wikipedia can read my
name easily enough, they cannot pronounce it properly, they do not know
if there is a meaning to my name. The only thing they need to do is
register that the characters in my name exist. That is all that is required.
Thanks,
GerardM