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

[Gerard Meijssen]

geni schreef:
> On 12/22/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It is your choice not to install fonts. So this is self inflicted
>> damage. Something you punish others for.
>>     
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> I could make wikipedia pretty much un-useable in IE (and partly
> firefox) your choice not to run opera.
>   
When you do this you will get banned. Certainly if you have developer 
rights, it will be the end of it. A steward lost his stewardship because 
he threatened to do things.
>
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>> With SUL you can check out who and what they are within WMF. They will
>> not only have but also have en.wikipedia history. So in stead of not
>> knowing who they are you will find that they have extended history in
>> other projects.
>>     
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> In a small number of cases
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With SUL people will be asked to concentrate all the users under one 
user. Effectively it will mean that the number of people is likely to grow.
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>> So you will have gained a way of identifying your
>> vandals in stead of lost a way of identifying them.
>>     
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> How do I tell a vandle from a newbie from Ja.wikipeida?
>
>   
The same way you can identify a newbie on en.wikipedia; you look at the 
user contributions. NB it is vandal and not vandle.

Thanks,
    GerardM