[Foundation-l] Throwing some data onto the flamefest fire (was: English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities)

[Luiz Augusto]

On 12/22/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/22/06, Gianluigi Gamba <gigamb at tin.it> wrote:
> > It's an invitation to prefer Latin script in order to make the search
> > easier, not a strict prohibition.
> > Usernames written entirely with non-Latin script are not blocked
> > automatically.
>
> Although it might be hard to tell from the accusations in this thread:
> They are not blocked automatically on enwiki either.


Gianluigi is right to assert the issue for the Italian Wikipedia: this isn't
a auto-block, first the users talks). But sorry Gregory, English Wikipedia
really make auto-blocks until no first talk.
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01:41, 19 June 2006
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01:43, 19 June 2006 Pschemp <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pschemp> (
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blocked "¬<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:%C2%AC&action=edit>(
contribs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%C2%AC>)" with
an expiry time of indefinite ({{usernameblock}} non standard characters)
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