[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single userlogin

Brian McNeil brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org
Tue Apr 8 12:00:58 UTC 2008


It would be frightfully rude to exclude usernames just because you can't
read them. Dare I say, part of the Anglocentric bias we are supposed to
strive to avoid?


Brian McNeil

-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Henning
Schlottmann
Sent: 08 April 2008 13:54
To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single
userlogin

Mark Williamson wrote:
> My answer to this problem: get a better OS that displays Chinese
> characters instead of squares and question marks :-)

That's not the question. For most western Wikipedians Chinese characters 
are not more helpful to identify a person then question marks or squares.

Ciao Henning


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