Hoi, Yes, and from Sicilians and from others and from myself as well. Then again what is it to you. Do you need to reply to everything? Are you "the keeper of our collective conscience"?? And to be absolutely plain about it, you are not the only one speaking about languages with other people. I at least have the courtesy of keeping almost all of it of this or any other list. I need to learn about languages and I do but your learning process if way too public.
On the subject of interwiki links, both no and nb give the same name for the language in the Interwiki links. This does not work out well in Wiktionary where you find no and nb often side by side.
Thanks, GerardM
Mark Williamson wrote:
Gerard, have there been complaints from Italians yet?
Mark
On 11/07/05, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
A lot of languages don't write language names with capital letter at the beginning. This rule includes almost all Slavic languages, Italian, Hungarian (I think Norwegian) etc.
Interwiki links are not headings and it should not be written as headings. All of them are references. Even we can treat it as headings, it makes a lot of confusion and bad orthography. For example, Serbian interwiki link is with bad orthography ("Српски / Srpski") as well as Serbo-Croatian.
As interwiki links use natural form of language name, we should use natural orthography, too.
I think that it should be "announced" as Wikipedia policy, because it seems that it is not just technical question. So, I am writing the proposal here because of that.
Hoi, I love to second this request. We also write Arabic, Georgian, Hebrew, Thai, Chinese and Farsi it in its script, the whole point IS that we write it as it is written in the script of the language, why write it with bad orthography?? The name of the language in Italian is: *italiano. *Please make it so. Thanks, GerardM