"Toby Bartels" skribis:
Magnus Manske wrote:
When writing on Phase II, I was thinking about little flags for the different languages. We'd just need a merged GB/US flag for en.wikipedia.com...
I say that we should use the English flag, since the English language is named after England. I'm American, never been to England, but this doesn't bother me.
And note that the English flag is *not* the Union Jack. It's *half* of that, the flag of Saint George.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-eng.html
[en] (a) How many of the people interested in the english pages knows that this is the flag of England?
(b) Who will associate this flag with the english language?
I think, this is even more discriminating than only using the flag of the United Kingdom.
Will this sort of thing work for every language that doesn't (like Esperanto) have its own flag?
I think at all that country-flags for representing languages is a bad idea - even if the language is named after a country.
Here again the arguments: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html
Paul