Re: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization

2009-10-04 Thread effe iets anders
Just as a sidenote, /if/ you localize, the English version of the namespaces will always redirect. For example, File:Example.ogg redirects in the dutch wikipedia to Bestand:Example.ogg . Best, Lodewijk 2009/10/4 David Gerard > 2009/10/4 Geoffrey Plourde : > > > The issue I see is that if a comp

Re: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization

2009-10-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/10/4 Geoffrey Plourde : > The issue I see is that if a computer doesn't have japanese character > support, ja-wp would be hard to navigate. o_0 If a computer doesn't have Japanese character support, the user is extremely unlikely to get much use out of ja:wp anyway. - d. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization

2009-10-04 Thread Jon Harald Søby
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 ($wgS

Re: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization

2009-10-04 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
The issue I see is that if a computer doesn't have japanese character support, ja-wp would be hard to navigate. From: aokomoriuta To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, October 4, 2009 3:06:39 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia&quo

Re: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization

2009-10-04 Thread Eugene Zelenko
Hi! I think it's good idea to localize namespaces and project name. I don't think that there any special WMF policy on this subject. You could see examples of such localizations in interwikis on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump. Eugene. On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 3:06 AM, aokomo

[Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization

2009-10-04 Thread aokomoriuta
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