[Foundation-l] Sigh, problems with non-Latin usernames again

[David Gerard]

On 29/01/07, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you really believe that people remember who they worked with last
> year on an article? Given the sheer multitude of people only a tiny core
> of people are known. They are the "power users" of a project.


Actually, to a large extent they do. Remember that most articles in
en:wp have been shown (Greg Maxwell ran the numbers in January 2006)
to be largely written by only a few users.


> Come on, so you can call them thingybobs, the right name for this
> attitude is discrimination. People are demanding things; they want to be
> known by their own user ID.


I remember that you were the sole voice against having them
identifiable to other users who did not happen to be able to read that
script.

It is not realistic to require of all editors on the English Wikipedia
to be able to read every script in all of Unicode to be able to work
with others on a project written in a Latin script language.


- d.