[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single userlogin
Henning Schlottmann
h.schlottmann at gmx.net
Tue Apr 8 12:48:01 UTC 2008
Brian McNeil wrote:
> 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?
I is not the question, whether it is perceived as rude by some.
Intelligibility of Chinese, Arabic Devanagari, Thai characters or
whatever is a fact in most projects and it is high time to address it.
By now I found the talk page and archives of [[:en:WP:U]]. There the
question was raised several times but always chocked off by citing meta
and claiming the foundation had said so and it was Force Majeure, that
SUL would come and it would mean non-latin user names.
Has there ever been a discussion if SUL really is the answer to any real
problem and if this had to mean non-latin user names on projects based
on latin languages?
Ciao Henning
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