[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities

[Stan Shebs]

Matt R wrote:
> Perhaps the software can be set-up so that users with non-Latin-script names
> can specify a transliteration of their username for en?
>   
The transliteration will be useful for more than en: - ru: editors are 
also more likely to recognize Latin transliterations of ja: .

And before anybody screams about "Latin charset imperialism", note that 
all the nations of the world have long agreed to include Latin versions 
of their names on their postage stamps, in addition to any preferred 
native scripts (UK gets to omit name entirely, as the first to issue 
stamps), for the benefit of postal clerks who are not expert linguists.

Stan