On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
On Fri, Nov
19, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
wrote:
Here is
another prime example of how the user is misled when using the
english wikipedia.
lets say you are looking for Maja Pançiq, you wont find the article,
because someone commented out the name in the article
Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak. Just because albanian is not an official
language in central serbia, they say. First of all, there are many
albanians living in that area, and second of all, the point is listed
as a border point between Kosovo and Serbia in the GNS database. We
cannot have a dysfunctional wikipedia, we need to contain both names
and make it possible to navigate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak
thanks,
mike
You are, of course, correct, assuming the mountain has a commonly used
name in the Albanian language, whether it is on the border or not.
The name is common, it is listed even in the albanian wikipedia,
http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Pan%C3%A7iq
It is on wikimapia
http://wikimapia.org/7522941/sq/Maja-Pan%C3%A7iq
listed in wikibooks
http://sq.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tokajon/Fjalorthi
It has 32 results on google, and at least it should be mentioned.
The point is that we are forced to monitor all changes all the time
because some editors have a bad habit of POV deleting data, it is
reoccurring and very annoying.
thanks,
mike
I think we'll have to have two lists for a while, as, according to one
strongly held point of view, Kosovo remains part of Serbia. Our selection
and naming of articles should not attempt to resolve an international
political issue.
OK, well then it is a tolerated POV Fork. a exception to the rule. I
have no problem with that,
so what do you think about making the Albanian names of Serbian (and
Kosovo) towns list, that should be also tolerated according to the
existing pages. I would be happy with that, at least it would give our
Kosovo team something that they would be happy to do,
can I get some support for this idea?
thanks,
mike