[Foundation-l] Throwing some data onto the flamefest fire (was: English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities)

Gianluigi Gamba gigamb at tin.it
Fri Dec 22 20:50:43 UTC 2006


Luiz Augusto ha scritto:
> Others wikis have a policy fully disallowing any number on usernames. And,
> the etnocentrich policy is currently active in some more Wikimedia wikis [2]
>
> [2] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Nome_utente#Nomi_utente_inappropriati,
> http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Aiuto:Nome_utente#Nomi_utente_inappropriati
>
>   
It's an invitation to prefer Latin script in order to make the search 
easier, not a strict prohibition.
Usernames written entirely with non-Latin script are not blocked 
automatically.

G.




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