[Intlwiki-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] en.wikipedia.org vs www.wikipedia.org and the Wikipedia family

[Andre Engels]

> Anthere wrote:
> > Right now, on the actual www.wikipedia.org,
> > there is *little way* a user not fluent in english, will have the
> > idea to scroll and look everywhere, down to the bottom of the page,
> > inside a crowded list of international links, to find the link to a
> > latin wikipedia.
> 
> ?  Look again.  When I get to http://www.wikipedia.org/ and I'm logged out,
> I see, very large and near the top: Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French,
> Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese.
> 
> It seems very prominent to me already.  It seems sensible to me that
> those links should be translated to Espanol, Deutsche, etc.  (But not
> by me, since I don't even know what "French" is in French.  Francais?)

Check the German and Dutch Wikipedias; they already use the 'native' name
for other languages.

Andre Engels