[Foundation-l] English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities

Fri Dec 22 10:54:15 UTC 2006

On 12/22/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> geni schreef:
> > On 12/22/06, Christophe Henner <christophe.henner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> And how much mass vandal robots did you have before discuting and
> >> accepting this policy (if it has been ever discussed and accepted ;))
> >> ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It's in our records for the most part you are free to search through them.
> >
> >
> >> If you have a bot making mass vandalizing, if the pseudo will be latin
> >> or non latin won't make any difference.
> >>
> >
> > Evidences?
> >
> >
> >> And by the way for bot generated pseudo it exists a feature ;).
> >>
> >
> > Um no.
> >
> >
> >> The
> >> probleme here, for my point of view, is totally different. In the five
> >> pillars we can read "Wikipedia is free content that anyone may edit"
> >> exept vandals of course, and your policy is going against this as you
> >> block non latin pseudo before they began editing, even if they would
> >> be a good editor.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > If an editor can't cope with useing a latin alphabet username (doesn't
> > have to make sense in any lanague know to man mind) then they are
> > unlikely to be able to contibute to wikipedia.
> This is not the issue. Certainly with SUL there is ONE user for all
> projects and the English language Wikipedia seems to be of a mind to
> effectively sabotage this by insisting on practices that can be and
> should be replaced by new practices that provide a better result. A
> 1.000+ editor from a Korean, Serbian, Chinese, Inuktitut can be accepted
> as a known good. Please show some good faith as this can be easily be
> checked.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM

Users who've done 1,000+ edits on Korean, Serbian, Chinese, Inuktitut
etc WPs are not the users we are afraid of here, Gerard.

Please stop putting up this straw man that we're all against having
the non-english users come on over and contribute equally.  I think
that those will be almost universally supported as a good thing among
en.WP editors.  Implying that we think otherwise is an offensive false
claim.  That is not why we're objecting.

-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com