I am fairly certain that the policy on Commons is that cities and other localities are in the native language. Therefore München and Praha are absolutely correct and the categories must be fixed.
Cary
-----Original Message----- From: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Bryan Tong Minh Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 4:56 PM To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons
The discussion about Munich can be found at the top of the Village Pump, or maybe in the latest archive by now.
Bryan
On 12/29/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Hi,
Quoting Patrick-Emil Zörner paddyez@yahoo.de:
I am quite appalled about how things have a nasty tendency to a nasty outcome on commons. München is being moved to Munich, Praha is moved to Prague,... and all on a specious kind of based argumentation. I know how the cities are called. I have seen the traffic signs! The cities are actually called München, Praha,...
There's no reason why we shouldn't have a gallery at both
[[Munich, Germany]]
and [[München, Deutschland]]. If people aren't interested in
maintaining both,
then I suppose we could get really worked up about which one is
the redirect and
which one is the actual gallery, but it is a pretty trivial
thing to argue over.
Categories are different, and should use English, with the
goal of eventually
translating based on user preferences.
Jkelly
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