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

[Yann Forget]

Hi,

Gregory Maxwell a écrit :
> On 12/21/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>There are those that have pointed out that practically all of the users
>>will be respectable users from other language projects
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Why do we use speculation and paranoia rather than data?
> 
> I thought folks on this thread might find this list useful.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/nonalphausers

If you want this to be meaningful, you need to remove accounts with only
Arabic numbers. Obviously these can be recognized easily by English-only
speakers.

> Obviously it does not count users who were blocked before they could
> "contribute".

This would be useful too, as a separate list, maybe.

Regards,

Yann