On 29/12/06, jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu <jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote: Commons is multilingual, so a redirect to the local language and text in all redirected languages would make the most obvious sense. (and then we can argue about countries with two national languages, of course - [[Brabant]] or [[Bruxelles]]? I think the *essential* point is that people can find images and media!) Hmmmmmmmmmmm ... I believe category redirects work in current versions of MediaWiki, though they're less than ideal. Hopefully categories will morph into tags soon (if MySQL's hideous performance difficulties can be worked around) and we can do things like tags-with-aliases (so that [[Tag:Brabant]] and [[Tag:Bruxelles]] work like they're one tag). - d.

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(a)fas.harvard.edu <jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote:

On 02/01/07, Cary Bass <bastique(a)bellsouth.net> wrote: No... did you ever notice [[category:北京]] ? (or even worse, maybe [[category:transport in 北京]]?) Nobody likes enforcing English-only categories to further Anglo-saxon supremism or the like, but until we have proper category redirects... regards, Brianna user:pfctdayelise

daniel1978(a)uol.com.br wrote: Well, if I were a native speaker working on el:, "Bridges in Athens" would be Greek to me. :-) My understanding was that we agreed to do category names in English as an interim compromise pending software improvements. If those improvements are not happening, then we should consider alternative ideas. Stan

daniel1978(a)uol.com.br a écrit : How can you decide that? Categories redirect works quite well, so this argument is not valid. See for example http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monte_Bianco See above. Regards, Yann

I see to main problems: How many of you seeing eg. 'zolw' will know that it's 'żółw' without diacritics? And what about if correct form is with and without diacritics and they mean something different? I agree that 'Bridges in Athens' should be in English, same 'Churches in Warsow', but some people are trying to mix both English and non-English versions what would give (for me terrific) results eg. 'powiat mikołowski' is name of territorial unit in Poland and correct grammar and orthographic version is as I written, but people are trying to make English version like this: * 'Poviat mikołowski' - Englicised 'powiat' with Polish adjective (ugly, but correct orthography) * 'Poviat Mikołowski' - as above but wrong orthography * 'Poviat Mikołów' - correct grammar and orthograph (Mikołów is noun in nominative, city name), but something like that doesn't exist * 'Poviat Mikolow' as above, but without diacritics As we see all versions aren't really good ;) but first ('powiat mikołowski') is correct in Polish so I think we should keep it ;) Everything is getting much more bad when we try to apply it to names of churches where are used constructions not existing in non-slavic languages and there is more then 10 different versions and every has some of reveled by me errors. AJF/WarX