Dear Rob,
With all due respect, what kind of ridiculous username
is that? How
are we supposed to link "80686" to a person in a quick manner? I see
"brion", I can think "Brion Vibber, don't argue with his code", I
see
"tstarling", I know it's Tim.
well, it's me, as I'm known
since 15 years in all kind of computing fields,
including Wikipedia, MediaWiki and the IRC channels.
Exactly like Brion (thanks) has introduced me in his mail.
"80686" might be a popular username, but we
aren't dealing with a
bunch of children dancing about behind some wonderful label. We're
dealing with people who need to be a touch *more* accountable than the
damn wikis this is powering.
It is not propular, and that's the reason why I
kept it since 15 years.
I don't know how young you are, but as learned IT specialists and studied
computer scientiest (applied computerscience in the field of internet
engineering) I don't see a problem here.
To be honest, I didn't find sponsors to pay people to create questioned
extensions and deal with them that they may be put under GPL to be pissed off
by you because of such a stupid thing like a username.
--
Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch