[Foundation-l] English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities
Walter van Kalken
walter at vankalken.net
Fri Dec 22 20:10:24 UTC 2006
I'll drink to that :)
Thanks Birgitte !
Waerth
>The en.WP Username policy has been changed.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Username&curid=168684&diff=95920637&oldid=95900078
>
>I would encourage everyone to continue to work on
>ideas to help with vandal-fighting. With SUL, I think
>there will be even stronger benefits to collabortaion
>across wikis on these issues. One important issue
>would be finding a way to share information on these
>sleeper accounts who turnout to be blatant vandals
>since all blocks will be local only. There is always
>the possibilty one might careless show himself to be a
>vandal on one wiki while still gathering posistive
>edits on others. Currently there is no way to
>distinguish why a person was blocked outside of being
>to read block summaries which has serious limitations.
>
>
>Birgitte SB
>
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