Yeah, because it's sooo easy with the status quo. 2009/10/4 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.p...@yahoo.com>
> The issue I see is that if a computer doesn't have japanese character > support, ja-wp would be hard to navigate. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: aokomoriuta <maill...@enmps.net> > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Sent: Sun, October 4, 2009 3:06:39 AM > Subject: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization > > Hello! > > > As User:mizusumashi said in wikitech-list, now in Japanese Wikipedia, > it's proposed that to change sitename ($wgSitename) from "Wikipedia" into > "ウィキペディア" at [[w:ja:Wikipedia:井戸端/subj/サイト名の設定を「ウィキペディア」にする提案]] ( > http://bit.ly/C7RPz). > > wikitech-list member advised very useful thing for this changing, but it's > a little more technical than I expected. > > I want to know how other lang wikimedians think that Japanese wiki(pedia) > uses English word "Wikipedia" as its sitename and Project namespace prefix. > Is it acceptable (if jawp users want)? Do we need to change it into > Japanese word? Or don't need but recommended? > > And how about using "ウィキペディア" as sitename of "Wikipedia"? > Some user says "ウィキペディア" is NOT localized or translated term of "Wikipedia" > because it's only just [[w:Katakana]]-ized, and we must use other term (e.g. > "ウィキ百科" - "ウィキ" is Katakana-ized of "Wiki", and "百科" is [[w:Kanji]] meaning > "encyclopedia"). > Just for information, NOW we use "ウィキペディア" in left-top logo. > > And more, some user says we don't must use "ウィキペディア" or other Japanese > terms as Project namespace prefix but must use "Wikipedia", because that > situation makes us easy to tell Project pages from other pages. > How about to use different prefix for Project namespace from sitename for > such reason? > > > Please tell me your opinion or WMF policy > > > Thanks. > > -- > ======================================================== > 青子守歌 > aokomoriuta > > e-mail: aokomori...@enmps.net > URL: http://bgs.jpn.ph/ > blog: http://bgs.jpn.ph/blog/ > twitter: http://twitter.com/aokomoriuta > jawp: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ao_komoriuta > mixi: http://mixi.jp/show_friend.pl?id=19926155 > ======================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
