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

geni geniice at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 03:34:31 UTC 2006


On 12/22/06, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> So we better train either the anti-spoofing software or blocking bots
> like the one Curps had. If it can automatically block anything with
> "ON WHEELS" in it, surely it or something like it can be expanded to
> pick up swear words or recognisable patterns in other languages.

Could. Less effort to shoot non Latin usernames on site than to use up
our limited multilingual resources..

-- 
geni



More information about the foundation-l mailing list