[Wikipedia-l] Moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org

Stephen Gilbert canuck_in_korea2002 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 14 03:02:31 UTC 2002


Exactly. Why do we need anything other than the name
of the language? It's the clearest, easiest way.

I hate to try to click a world map trying to get to
the Basque language....

Stephen G.

--- tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> wrote:
> Flags & Maps -- both far too complicated. And
> they're contentious issues 
> just waiting to explode in our faces.
> 
> Flags -- which ones to use? What to do for languages
> spoken in many 
> countries? What to do for countries which speak
> several languages?
> World Map -- what about mixed areas? What about the
> load time for the 
> image? It'll have to be pretty big to show the
> different areas of 
> Switzerland, no?
> 
> What is the *basic, driving* idea behind these
> suggestions? to make it 
> simple for people to find their language on the
> portal page.
> 
> The simplest thing is still to have the name of each
> language, in words.
> 
> 
> [Wikipedia-l]
> To manage your subscription to this list, please go
> here:
> http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l


__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More
http://faith.yahoo.com



More information about the Wikipedia-l mailing list