[WikiEN-l] Annoying exonyms (was: hatnotes)

[Tony Sidaway]

Of course the whole reason you'd want to put a reference to Vienna
into the article on Vienne is that it's a French name, and if you
happen to be reading a French text using Wikipedia as a reference it
might be useful for you to know that the name Vienne may sometimes
refer to a foreign capital.

Could we do that in French Wikipedia?  Yes, but why only French Wikipedia?

On 8/23/09, Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com> wrote:
>> but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a
>> part of that?
>
> You mean the Wikimedia foundation?
>
> Emily
> On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay.  It's been
>>> copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it.
>>> Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more
>>> years at
>>> the most :)
>>>
>>> In twenty years, we will live inside the matrix 24-7 with constant
>>> streaming implants so there won't be an "Internet" per se, and
>>> computing power will
>>> be distributed all-wetware-all-the-time.  After all any million step
>>> computation can be done one step at a time by a million neurons,
>>> you don't even
>>> have to be in a waking state.  Hey that's gives me an idea!
>>
>> Let's run with it though... you're going with the (I think fairly
>> sound) idea that the digital landscape will be very different 20 years
>> down the line... but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit
>> wouldn't be a part of that?
>>
>> Do you think it would be hopelessly superseded by brain implants that
>> give us access to all knowledge all of the time? Who's to say that
>> that knowledge wouldn't be provided by Wikipedia?
>>
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