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

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 12/22/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can you generate a list of non-blocked non-latin
> usernames that are active editors?

Yes

[snip]
> of blocking latin usernames started.  To find
> non-latin usernames that have been blocked by this
> policy you can look through
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Temporary_Wikipedian_userpages&from=Z

The first one I checked...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E8%97%A4%E4%BA%95%E7%8C%AB%E3%82%86%E3%81%86%E3%81%BE

is blocked for vandalism on jawiki:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Log&type=block&page=%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:%E8%97%A4%E4%BA%95%E7%8C%AB%E3%82%86%E3%81%86%E3%81%BE

:)

You might also enjoy the list of blocked users with non-ascii
characters in their names at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/nonalphausers/blocked