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

[David Gerard]

On 23/12/06, Titoxd at Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I had already made this suggestion previously, but it was in the
> context of renaming users, but I'll make it again, as it can also help out
> with this monumental mess:
>
> Why don't we write the "home wiki" of a user in the global login database?
>
> Originally, I had suggested it to be a way to stop a rouge bureaucrat in the
> Siberian Wikipedia (just picking one off the top of my head) from renaming
> my account in the global database, and by default, from renaming my account
> in every Wikimedia project. However, by exposing the home wiki of a user,
> perhaps in Special:Contributions and after every diff link (perhaps so it
> looks like $user ($wiki) (contribs | block)), an English Wikipedia admin can
> see whether the user created his account in the Japanese Wikipedia, and ask
> a Japanese-speaking admin to tell us whether the user has an objectionable
> username or not.
>
> I hope I don't get flamed for suggesting this, but it's something I just
> came up with.
>
> Titoxd.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert Scott
> Horning
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:57 AM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Throwing some data onto the flamefest fire (was:
> English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities)
>
> David Gerard wrote:
>
> >On 23/12/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >Well, Brion is watching this thread and waiting for us all to stop
> >trying to kill each other ...
> >
> >
> >- d.
> >
> He isn't the only one.  This seems to be much ado about nothing, other
> than perhaps some indivudal over-zealous admins.
>
> Here is hoping this thread dies a quick death soon.  Please make that a
> Christmas present to the Wikimedia Community!
>
> There are other topics to spend bandwidth on, and this one has a
> particularly low S/N
>
> --
> Robert Scott Horning
>
>
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