[Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization - Wikimedia-l

4 Oct 2009

Hello!

As User:mizusumashi said in wikitech-list, now in Japanese Wikipedia,
it's proposed that to change sitename ($wgSitename) from "Wikipedia" into
"ウィキペディア" at [[w:ja:Wikipedia:井戸端/subj/サイト名の設定を「ウィキペディア」にする提案]]
(http://bit.ly/C7RPz).

wikitech-list member advised very useful thing for this changing, but it's a little
more technical than I expected.

I want to know how other lang wikimedians think that Japanese wiki(pedia) uses English
word "Wikipedia" as its sitename and Project namespace prefix.
Is it acceptable (if jawp users want)? Do we need to change it into Japanese word? Or
don't need but recommended?

And how about using "ウィキペディア" as sitename of "Wikipedia"?
Some user says "ウィキペディア" is NOT localized or translated term of
"Wikipedia" because it's only just [[w:Katakana]]-ized, and we must use
other term (e.g. "ウィキ百科" - "ウィキ" is Katakana-ized of "Wiki",
and "百科" is [[w:Kanji]] meaning "encyclopedia").
Just for information, NOW we use "ウィキペディア" in left-top logo.

And more, some user says we don't must use "ウィキペディア" or other Japanese terms
as Project namespace prefix but must use "Wikipedia", because that situation
makes us easy to tell Project pages from other pages.
How about to use different prefix for Project namespace from sitename for such reason?

Please tell me your opinion or WMF policy

Thanks.

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