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

[James Hare]

I came up with another idea, which would assume that SUL is in place...
perhaps people could have multiple usernames linked to a single login for
use on wikis with different scripts...

On my "Messedrocker" account, if I wanted to get involved on, for example,
the Greek Wikipedia, I could set up another login linked to my account:
Μεσσεδροcκερ. On Greek Wikipedia, I would set that as my name to be
identified as, so while I still would be able to log in as Messedrocker, I
would be identified on the wiki through recent changes,
Special:Contributions, user page, etc. as Μεσσεδροcκερ. The Greek alternate
handle would be automatically registered to prevent impersonation (and a
slew of other technical problems).

On 12/23/06, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Whatever. If you think that it is OK that you take the whole
> responsibility for consequences for all en.wiki users outside of
> en.wiki -- it's fine for me, too.
>
> On 12/23/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/23/06, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 12/23/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 12/23/06, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > This case needs referendum on English Wikipedia,
> > > >
> > > > There is no pratical way to do that.
> > >
> > > (Public) referendum is possible: just make a poll and then announce it
> > > on Watclist, Sitenotice, Main Page and other relevant pages.
> >
> >
> > So you agree it is imposible?
> >
> > Adding notices about policy chnages to any of those places is not
> > viewed as acceptable on en.
> > --
> > geni
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