[WikiEN-l] cleaning up the Kosovo geographic names

[Mike Dupont]

Here is another prime example of how the user is misled when using the
english wikipedia.
lets say you are looking for Maja Pançiq, you wont find the article,
because someone commented out the name in the article
Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak. Just because albanian is not an official
language in central serbia, they say. First of all, there are many
albanians living in that area, and second of all, the point is listed
as a border point between Kosovo and Serbia in the GNS database. We
cannot have a dysfunctional wikipedia, we need to contain both names
and make it possible to navigate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak
thanks,
mike

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Mike  Dupont
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I would like to point out that the "List of mountains in Serbia" and
> "List of mountains in Kosovo" are again POV forks. They contain the
> same data in different levels of quality. Additionally, the editors
> refused to include to albanian names so that we can even find the
> article. This is a problem with the wikipedia to allow such confusing
> things to happen.
>
> People don't care if some editor recognizes kosovo or not, they just
> want to know where the mountain is so they can go hiking or whatever.
> we cannot allow every list to be a POV fork.
>
> Either we define the individual mountains as templates to be included
> by both pages, or we include the kosovo list as a separate list on the
> serbian list, or we remove the kosovo list items from the serbian
> lists.
>
> We cannot have two lists of everything that have two POVs.
>
> thanks,
> mike
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:21 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 18 November 2010 18:31, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just want to point out that I am not ethnic, I really dont give a
>>> flying cow. about all the emotions right now.
>>> the real problem here is the quality of the kosovo articles, they are
>>> not useful. They lack basic information that people will need if they
>>> visit the place, like the names of things that people there call them.
>>> The current situation is just lopsided. it needs to be fixed.
>>
>>
>> The perfect place to be coming from :-D
>>
>> Remember: the goal is to get things right and be useful.
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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