[Foundation-l] Translatewiki illustrates how low internationalisation is in the priorities of the Wikimedia Foundation

Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 16:15:15 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> (...)
> So users are requested to either
>
> * Let awkward translations go on being displayed on their language
> version of Wikipedia
> * Or open an account on a non-Wikimedia project, which means providing
> non-Wikimedia managers access to your personal data. That means you
> are loosing the guarantees of
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy (the guarantee that
> your data are accessed only exceptionally and in such exceptional
> cases, always handled by people trusted by the Wikimedia Foundation)
>

You don't have to use the same username as on the wiki. You don't EVEN
need to have a wikipedia username.
Nobody can correlate your account on Translatewiki to your Wikipedia
account, unless you do it.

Don't use same password.
Don't use same username.
That's all.



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