I have done a write up of the current issues with the naming and
invite you to please read and comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont#Naming_and_status_of_Kosovo_pages
I suggest some things and would like to find agreement, we need to
figure out the right way forward on this
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I'm very naive on this subject, but from what I understood there are two
ethnic groups (independent or not, it doesn't change this cultural
fact). And one of this group has two official languages.
So, regardless of the political agendas, why don't we
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote:
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I'm very naive on this subject, but from what I understood there are two
ethnic groups (independent or not, it doesn't change this cultural
fact). And one of this group has two
I have done a write up of the current issues with the naming and
invite you to please read and comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont#Naming_and_status_of_Kosovo_pages
I suggest some things and would like to find agreement, we need to
figure out the right way forward on this
On 15 November 2010 15:31, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote:
So, regardless of the political agendas, why don't we let each ethnical
group have its own wikipedia project, and in case of several languages,
allow a secondary fork?
This would concretely gives three distinct projects:
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:19 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2. This is about en:wp only.
I am taking it to the english list. thanks for your attention.
A final point for the entire project, not just any language,
I would like point out that the sr.wikipedia and sq.wikipedia for
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:19 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2. This is about en:wp only.
I am taking it to the english list. thanks for your attention.
A final point for the entire project, not just any language,
I would like point out that the sr.wikipedia and sq.wikipedia for
Yes, sure, but a lot of smaller villages and towns in many countries
do not have well-established English names. Besides, what constitutes
the English name is a matter of debate - according to law, the
official name of Kolkata in English is Kolkata... but then, couldn't
Germany pass a law saying
Hi there, I have seen a big problem in getting people to contribute in
kosovo to wikipedia
except the Kosovo article, there they dont call in *Kosovo and Metohija*i,
so I think there is a president for the english and albanian names in
wikipedia.
most of the names are in serbian, with strange
On 11/11/2010 03:26 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
so I think there is a president for the english and albanian names in
wikipedia.
most of the names are in serbian, with strange characters that I cannot even
type.
this offends most contributors and prevents locals from contributing.
also the serbs
I think that at least a consistent listing of both names is needed,
expecially on the links. I have had to fight with simple unwillingness to
list both names in serbian and albanian on all things.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Hi there, I have seen
On 11 November 2010 14:26, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Ideally we would use the albanian
names and encourage the locals to edit.
No ideally we would use the English names. As we have established with
say Germany and Norway what the locals happen to call something is
of
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