The Icelandic wikipedia currently has no interwiki links on its century and decade articles, this is because Icelandic uses a system for decades and centuries which probably not alot (if any) languages use, at least not the ones i've surveyed, our decades and centuries are "off" by one year from "conventional" systems, we therefore cannot link to them since the two articles would not describe the same period.
A decade in Icelandic starts at x where x is a number ending in one and ends nine years later, so for example the period 1991–2000 is the "tenth decade" of the twentieth century. This is unlike English where a decade would be the period from 1990 to 1999 and be called the "1990s" or "nineties" for short.
Similarly, the "twentieth century" begins in 1901 and ends in 2000, unlike the English twentieth century which begins in 1900 and ends in 1999.
This system is at least not used in Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, Swedish, German, English, Spanish, french, Italian, Dutch, polish.
So, if any of you know another language which uses the same info reply to this email, and we can then link to it.
Actually, the centuries in English are the same as in Icelandic, the 20th century begins in 1901-2000. However the nineteen hundreds (1900s) refers to 1900-1999.
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:33:43 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
The Icelandic wikipedia currently has no interwiki links on its century and decade articles, this is because Icelandic uses a system for decades and centuries which probably not alot (if any) languages use, at least not the ones i've surveyed, our decades and centuries are "off" by one year from "conventional" systems, we therefore cannot link to them since the two articles would not describe the same period.
A decade in Icelandic starts at x where x is a number ending in one and ends nine years later, so for example the period 1991–2000 is the "tenth decade" of the twentieth century. This is unlike English where a decade would be the period from 1990 to 1999 and be called the "1990s" or "nineties" for short.
Similarly, the "twentieth century" begins in 1901 and ends in 2000, unlike the English twentieth century which begins in 1900 and ends in 1999.
This system is at least not used in Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, Swedish, German, English, Spanish, french, Italian, Dutch, polish.
So, if any of you know another language which uses the same info reply to this email, and we can then link to it. _______________________________________________ WikiIS-l mailing list WikiIS-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiis-l