On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:50:45AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Karl Eichwalder wrote:
There the German name haters already won ;-( At times, the German "Recent changes" list looks funny: many a lot names completely unknown to me. The strange thing is that they don't step forward renaming also "Straßburg" (Strasbourg), "Mailand" (Milano), "Rom" (Roma), "Venedig" (Venezia), "Kopenhagen" (Kopenhavn), etc.
Well, that's very strange to me. It's not really my place, exactly, to comment much on what the wiki-consensus should be in German language, but if I was German, I'd probably want to work on fixing that. But perhaps there are subtleties that I don't understand, so I'll just refrain from comment.
Should be intlwiki-l but anyway; for me it was natural to form the policy on Hungarian as "we should use names which Hungarian people would naturally use, and which is the most used, and make others redirect to them".
grin