[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 12/21/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There are those that have pointed out that practically all of the users
> will be respectable users from other language projects
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Why do we use speculation and paranoia rather than data?

I thought folks on this thread might find this list useful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/nonalphausers

Obviously it does not count users who were blocked before they could
"contribute".

It would also be fun to take Brion's automerge data and calculate the
distribution of projects the typical user edits on...