[Foundation-l] Sigh, problems with non-Latin usernames again

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
And I disagree utterly with your pov. Do try and suggest to ban white 
people. The organisation of Wikimania 2005 and 2006 would have been so 
much easier; every body could have been meetings in a pub on a Friday 
night. I would even suggest that there would not have been much of a 
Wikipedia without white people. As to women, there is a present need for 
a safer environment for women this was shouted down by males who felt 
insulted by the suggestion. You have correctly indicated three areas 
where we could do better; language, race and gender.
Thanks,
   GerardM

Matt R schreef:
> --- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> If "common sense" means that discrimination is permitted than I do 
>> agree. When discrimination is permitted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a 
>> black veil darkens what used to be a more bright promise of a world. 
>>     
>
> Sheesh, let's cut back on the melodrama a notch, eh? I'm not suggesting banning
> white people. I'm not demanding that female users must identify themselves by
> writing in a pink font. What I am saying is that editors who enter into
> non-trivial interactions on the English Wikipedia should be obliged to have a
> handle that can be grokked by speakers of the English language.
>
> -- Matt