Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix. So, now you are all welcome to use:
catalan.wikipedia.com chinese.wikipedia.com esperanto.wikipedia.com french.wikipedia.com deutsche.wikipedia.com hebrew.wikipedia.com italian.wikipedia.com japanese.wikipedia.com portuguese.wikipedia.com spanish.wikipedia.com russian.wikipedia.com
We are aware that the naming convention is wrong. Why use "Deutsche" instead of "German" in one place, and "Spanish" instead of "Espanol" in another? Simple. We just don't know the correct words or even the characters to use in many cases. So, tell us what it *should* be, and we'll make it so...
The proper thing to do, it was decided, is to use the 'language codes'. You can find this in the discussion on wikipedia, or...
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm
The two letter codes should be preferred, but the 3 letter codes should probably just magically work if someone happens to use one of them.
Jason Richey wrote:
Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix. So, now you are all welcome to use:
catalan.wikipedia.com chinese.wikipedia.com esperanto.wikipedia.com french.wikipedia.com deutsche.wikipedia.com hebrew.wikipedia.com italian.wikipedia.com japanese.wikipedia.com portuguese.wikipedia.com spanish.wikipedia.com russian.wikipedia.com
We are aware that the naming convention is wrong. Why use "Deutsche" instead of "German" in one place, and "Spanish" instead of "Espanol" in another? Simple. We just don't know the correct words or even the characters to use in many cases. So, tell us what it *should* be, and we'll make it so...
-- "Jason C. Richey" jasonr@bomis.com
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When you've done what Jimbo says, can you post an anouncement on Wikipedia-L? I want to post a big announcement about it on Interpret-L. This is going to be very cool...
Larry
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The proper thing to do, it was decided, is to use the 'language codes'.
You
can find this in the discussion on wikipedia, or...
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm
The two letter codes should be preferred, but the 3 letter codes should
probably
just magically work if someone happens to use one of them.
Jason Richey wrote:
Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix. So, now you are all welcome to use:
catalan.wikipedia.com chinese.wikipedia.com esperanto.wikipedia.com french.wikipedia.com deutsche.wikipedia.com hebrew.wikipedia.com italian.wikipedia.com japanese.wikipedia.com portuguese.wikipedia.com spanish.wikipedia.com russian.wikipedia.com
We are aware that the naming convention is wrong. Why use "Deutsche" instead of "German" in one place, and "Spanish" instead of "Espanol" in another? Simple. We just don't know the correct words or even the characters to use in many cases. So, tell us what it *should* be, and we'll make it so...
-- "Jason C. Richey" jasonr@bomis.com
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I made it a bit more sensible. You can now access these wikis by using their two character or three character identifiers, as defined in the ISO 639 standard (http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm). Note that I have not added all of the languages from te webpage above, only thos listed below. You can now access the pages at any one of many different urls. For example, the chinese wiki is available at zh.wikipedia.com, zho.wikipedia.com, chi.wikipedia.com, and chinese.wikipedia.com. They all point to the same data, so any url is as good as the nex. However, the "official" url is the one with the two character code (zh.wikipedia.com in this example). Hope this works for everyone.
Jason
Jason Richey wrote:
Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix. So, now you are all welcome to use:
catalan.wikipedia.com chinese.wikipedia.com esperanto.wikipedia.com french.wikipedia.com deutsche.wikipedia.com hebrew.wikipedia.com italian.wikipedia.com japanese.wikipedia.com portuguese.wikipedia.com spanish.wikipedia.com russian.wikipedia.com
We are aware that the naming convention is wrong. Why use "Deutsche" instead of "German" in one place, and "Spanish" instead of "Espanol" in another? Simple. We just don't know the correct words or even the characters to use in many cases. So, tell us what it *should* be, and we'll make it so...
-- "Jason C. Richey" jasonr@bomis.com
Hey Jason, good work.
I've added a few words to each of the new wikis, including a link back to the English-language "how to edit a page" instructions.
I've also completely changed the "International Wikipedia" page:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/International_Wikipedia
and I've created several subpages of that page on which I hope we'll discuss a few issues about policy. E.g., should we encourage the French Wikipedia to translate the English articles, if they exist already? Should we encourage efforts to coordinate, generally? Should we encourage the language wiki just to focus on issues related to their respective languages, cultures, histories, etc.? (To the latter, I think no.) Etc.
Larry
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