I think it is better to keep English as it is, Hindi Wikipedia could be
promoted and more outreach should be done. Because irrespective what Indian
government calls for the common terms in Hinglish Wikipedia follows a
different way of writing and simply changing everything into Hinglish may
make few things less understandable for those whose don't use them in a day
to day basis. But, they could also be kept along with English names.
regards
Subha
On 6 December 2011 18:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 18:21, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1. I believe me, @planemad and GerardM talked
about something very
similar over Lunch around WCI.
Language is a critical component in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is also hosts
volunteer generated content. Now a government can say use these words
instead of these, but that doesnt mean community members need to follow it.
Community needs to try and take a stand on it through concensus, since it
impacts MoS etc. But if the community is divided, then there has to be
mutual respect among contributors on what they use. One cant force new
generation folks to use the older vocabulary, older generation folks to use
new vocabulary just because a govt(which is very transient and limited
geographically where as language is universal) says so.
Of course certain things like search etc will get impacted but then once
the semantic web comes out, they will get ironed out. Technology has to do
a big catch up with people for a change.
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Regards
Srikanth.L
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