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

Mon Jan 29 23:31:50 UTC 2007

--- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt R schreef:
> > A lot Wikipedia thinking rests on associating knowledge of users with their
> > name <snip>

> 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.

I recognise plenty of users by name, even people who aren't "power users", and
yes, even people I haven't worked with for a while. I'll say it again: a lot of
Wikipedia thinking rests on associating knowledge of users with their username.
Names are part of the framework of how a community interacts.

Because of this, whether by technical means or by policy, we need to ensure
that usernames on a single-language wiki are going to be widely comprehensible
to speakers of that wiki's language.

-- Matt

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto
Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com

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