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> 1. Re: Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons (jfulrich(a)mailaka.net)
> 2. Re: English Wikipedia (jfulrich(a)mailaka.net)
> 3. Category renaming (was: Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons)
> (Robin Schwab)
> 4. Re: UI design on image pages (Fredrik Josefsson)
> 5. Re: UI design on image pages (David Monniaux)
> 6. Re: UI design on image pages (Andre Engels)
> 7. Re: UI design on image pages (Fredrik Josefsson)
> 8. Re: UI design on image pages (Gregory Maxwell)
> 9. Re: UI design on image pages (David Monniaux)
> 10. Re: UI design on image pages (David Gerard)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 01:28:17 -0000
> From: jfulrich(a)mailaka.net
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons
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> I agree.
>
> Laleena
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> From: bastique(a)bellsouth.net
> To: commons-l(a)wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons
> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:16:03 -0500
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>>It must have been a mental infarction. Galleries are done using
>>native
>>language and redirects. Categories have generally been done in
>>English.
>>
>>~~~~ (Cary)
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>>> [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Brianna
>>Laugher
>>> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 7:43 PM
>>> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
>>> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons
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>>>
>>> On 02/01/07, Cary Bass <bastique(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> > I am fairly certain that the policy on Commons is that cities and
>>other
>>> > localities are in the native language. Therefore M?nchen and
>>Praha are
>>> > absolutely correct and the categories must be fixed.
>>>
>>> No...
>>> did you ever notice [[category:??]] ? (or even worse, maybe
>>> [[category:transport in ??]]?)
>>>
>>> Nobody likes enforcing English-only categories to further
>>Anglo-saxon
>>> supremism or the like, but until we have proper category
>>redirects...
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Brianna
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 01:30:21 -0000
> From: jfulrich(a)mailaka.net
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] English Wikipedia
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> Any issues on Wikipedia that need correcting?
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> LaleenaWiki
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:58:12 +0100
> From: Robin Schwab <contact(a)robinschwab.ch>
> Subject: [Commons-l] Category renaming (was: Anglo-Saxonisation of the
> commons)
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> In the recent days I noticed an increase in conflicts about category
> renaming. Two cases: Category:Churches_in_Italy (and others) and
> Category:Cities_and_villages_by_country
>
> I think we would benefit from a formalized system for category
> renamings. The damage is enormous if a well working category tree gets
> destroyed or damaged. Currently all places worldwide are categorized as
> cities independent of their size!
>
> An idea could be that there must be a deletion request for the category
> to be moved. What do you think of this?
>
> Regards
>
> Robin
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 01:15:55 +0100 (CET)
> From: Fredrik Josefsson <fred_chessplayer(a)yahoo.se>
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] UI design on image pages
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> bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> skrev: Why not just edit stuff in the
> [[mediawiki:*]] namespace to make the
> uploader field more prominent in the file history? Whomever uploaded
> it is usually the author, and you don't need users to do the "right
> thing" its automatic.
>
> -bawolff
>
> It is difficult to implement this, as the developers have told me.
>
> I do think that if we want to develop this free stuff concept, our
> software needs to be more user friendly. Wikipedia is getting big, but it
> is still too complicated for ordinary people to do things that should be
> simple, such as uploading files.
>
> The upload form which requires the user to copy and paste a template is
> not something I'd expect every user to understand (for example my
> grandparents, but maybe not my parents either). And the current language
> translation of template is hardly optimal.
>
> Fredrik.
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