--- Peter Gervai grin@tolna.net wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:17:13AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Gareth Owen wrote:
WWW stands for World Wide Web - three *english* words. If
other
languages wish to replace there language codes with the
equivalent
abbreviation in their own language, I'm sure no-one will mind. (lwm.wikipedia.org for "le web mondial", peut-?tre?)
I don't really agree with this argument. 'www' is known
worldwide as
the indicator for the 'main' website of any organization. So
although
'www' has its roots in English, it's really quite general.
I'm sure he was joking. Ha-ha-ha.
:-/
But the argument is overreacted by all means, All langauges are on the startin pages, <countrycode>.wikipedia.org/ leads to the national page, I'm very satisfied with this way of handling.
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I personally would like to see a global page at www.wikipedia.com, one that shows the global reach of the product (for example a world map of languages rather than countries) stats about the project, number of contributors, articles in each language, as well as links to each of the language wikis.
This, I think, would really separate the project from all other book or web based encyclopedias: none are multilingual to the extent of the W.
Effectively, this would put the pressure on other encyclopedia to match our multilingual "feature", but of course they couldn't.
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