[adding foundation-l back to cc]
On 20/12/06, Rich Holton <richholton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Andrey wrote:
> We talk about the English-language Wikipedia
here, no? Other Wikimedia
> projects allow usernames in non-Latin scripts, as best I know. For instance,
> in Russian wikipedia, you may get a username in Cyrillic. Most complaints
> are from those editors who have a non-Latin username in their national
> wikipedia and fail to see why they can't keep it in English wikipedia. Best,
Single User Login (SUL) _is_ coming soon. This means
that someone with a
login on the Russian Wikipedia will be able to have the same username on
the English Wikipedia (just as an example).
The question is, are we ready for this?
Yeah. I should point out that I do think blocking non-Latin character
sets is probably a bad thing, and the only reason it's now done on en:
is one way of dealing with bot-vandals. This problem will need
addressing sooner rather than later.
Are any of the vandal fighters reading this?
- d.