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

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 12:12:49 UTC 2006


geni schreef:
> On 12/22/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Are you suggesting it is unreasonable to expect people to use browsers
> that are W3C compliant?
>
>   
It is unreasonable to suggest that you can make IE and Firefox stop 
functioning. This is poring oil on the fire.
>> 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.
>>     
>
> We shall see.
>
>   
>> The same way you can identify a newbie on en.wikipedia; you look at the
>> user contributions. NB it is vandal and not vandle.
>>     
>
> I can't read their contributions on Ja. I can't tell if their name is
> legit such as "Lorem ipsum" or the JA equivalent of swldk23p or whilly
> on wheels and is part of a series
>   
You can find out that someone has loads (1.000+) edits.




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