[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single userlogin
Mark Williamson
node.ue at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 13:22:53 UTC 2008
An example of problems with Japanese:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%81%AE%E8%BF%B7%E5%AE%AE
ICU transliterates that as User:kaino mí gōng
It should be User:kainomeikyuu
Mark
On 08/04/2008, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Again, what is the problem? It is these peoples' own fault they cannot
> distinguish two usernames.
>
> I cannot read the Armenian script, but I am sure I could distinguish
> between most usernames written in it.
>
> Besides, there are other solutions than a xenophobic response - we can
> use numbers, as someone else proposed... we could automatically
> transliterate (using ICU... it's a wonderful tool and it is
> open-source), although this raises problems vis-à-vis Japanese (kanji
> are transliterated in Pinyin rather than the appropriate Japanese
> reading, as there is not always a way to tell what is Japanese and
> what is Chinese), but it would still provide a useful and meaningful
> mnemonic.
>
> For example (first local script names on local recentchanges):
> http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E6%84%9B%E7%88%BE%E6%80%9D%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F
> = User: ài ěr sī xiān shēng
> http://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%D5%96%D5%A5%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB
> = User:Fetayi
> http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%AA%B8%E0%AA%A4%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B7%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%82%E0%AA%A6%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B0
> = User:satiṣacandra
>
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 08/04/2008, Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > 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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