Please, no. , if, say, a Japanese reader lands on a page on the Hungarian Wikipedia, they need to see a link in Japanese. The Hungarian name for their language may mean nothing to them. On Jan 10, 2013 2:19 PM, "Nicholas Michael Bashour" < [email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to make the names of languages appear in the language of > the wiki on which they are displayed? For example, the language links now > are in whatever that language is called in that specific language, but in > the future, would it be possible, say, on the English Wikipedia to have all > language links say the name of the language in English, and on the > Hungarian page they would all be in Hungarian, etc? > > -- > > Nicholas Michael Bashour > > President *|* Wikimedia District of Columbia <http://www.wikimediadc.org/> > > PO Box 9822 *| *Washington, DC 20016 > > **+32 0488 43 65 89 *|* <http://goog_1373167767/>+1 (202) 630 - 6248*|* > @NMichaelBashour > <http://goog_1373167767/>*<http://www.twitter.com/nmichaelbashour> > **|*[email protected] > > > > 2013/1/10 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > >> Hoi, >> Expanding to the full name of a language .... eh, do I speak Dutch, >> Niederlandisch or Nederlands ? And when I speak all those languages, how do >> I get all the different names for the language that I recognise as my >> mother tongue ? >> Thanks, >> Gerard >> >> >> On 10 January 2013 13:06, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Maybe you could incorporate a link to the International codes for >>> languages and expand the language code to the full name? >>> >>> Carol >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Carol Bream >>> Team Co-ordinator Library Applications, Thesaurus and Réseaubib >>> >>> European Commission >>> Central Library >>> ec.europa.eu/libraries >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> The personal data contained in this document are dealt with in >>> compliance with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 ofthe European Parliament and of >>> the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with >>> regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and >>> bodies and on the free movement of such data. 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Re: Order of language links (Jane Darnell) >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:02:58 +0100 >>> From: Jane Darnell <[email protected]> >>> To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." >>> <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links >>> Message-ID: >>> < >>> cafvca-fbsstup_aahfjv4d5g9tjrd5us_rsyukvrwitq7yj...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>> >>> I think the order of languages is only important for articles with lots >>> of >>> interwiki links, but for the vast majority of articles there will be less >>> than 5 or so and it doesn't matter. I often click on article interwikis >>> for >>> languages I don't know and can't read (like Japanese). I do this for >>> several reasons, the most prevalent being that I want to see >>> 1) How many links to that page are there in that language? >>> 2) How many items (and which items are these) that are in the articles >>> category in that language? >>> >>> I tend to only do this for the larger Wikipedia projects, where I do this >>> regularly as a trick to track down articles in foreign languages that are >>> good candidates to translate into English (the fathers/sons/siblings of >>> painters). >>> Jane >>> >>> 2013/1/8 Platonides <[email protected]> >>> >>> > On 08/01/13 22:31, LD 100 wrote: >>> > > I would preferred if this could also be changed by each users >>> > > individually in the settings (maybe the settings could be set >>> > > globally) >>> > >>> > Although preferences are evil, I see the point for customizing this. >>> > Having ar: in the top if I have no idea of that language is useless, I >>> > would prefer to sort first those languages I could understand, perhaps >>> > with a separator from those I definetely don't know (others might want >>> > to completely hide those). >>> > >>> > >>> > On 08/01/13 22:41, Meng Lu wrote: >>> > > It's an interesting point. I personally would prefer seeing the >>> > > Wikipedia instance's own language and English stay at the top, >>> followed >>> > > by the rest in alphabetical order. A longer stretch might be >>> > > providing alternative ordering methods for languages such as >>> > > alphabetical order, descending sizes of that page in each Wikipedia >>> > > instance. >>> > >>> > Article sizes are not a perfect estimator for article quality, but >>> seems >>> > decent enough. However, it should be able to be overriden by marks of >>> > Featured-article / Good-article when some of the entries are tagged as >>> > such. >>> > Con: Any edit potentially means purgin the entries for all interwikis. >>> > Although if the interwiki sort order is stored in wikidata, and we >>> > perhaps aren't actively purgin the squid entries, that shouldn't be a >>> > problem. >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikidata-l mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> > >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: < >>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/attachments/20130109/dafc8e85/attachment-0001.html >>> > >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >>> >>> End of Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 14, Issue 9 >>> ***************************************** >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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