Answering to Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
We're going off topic. The point is that handling
redirects as different "items" AND synonyms as list
"embedded" in the main article AND having a fuzzy
system for common errors would be greatly easier for
wiki writers and searchers. The genders matters is
just a part of the problem, since every language as,
anyway, synonyms and typing errors.
As far as for genders:
Hindi, Hurdu, Bengali, has two gender (m, f). Marathi
has 3 (m, f, n).
Yiddish has 3 genders, Hebrew just 2, my foult.
Indo-Iranian languages are a subfamily of the
Indo-European group, and have numbers AND genders:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-74600
Africa has many different languages. Many of them
belogn to the bantu group wich have genders and
numbers (handled with prefixs)
With Belgian I (probably not too clearly) meant
Flamish: not obvious, but still guessable, since the
other belgian language is French!
Romance, Germanic, or Slavic languages are
Indo-European language that are normally meant to
count all european language too (indo-EUROPEAN).
I don't think that they can be considerd a minority at
least because there a lot of terms referring to things
born or originated in Europe countries (classic music
terms are in Italian, food terms are in thier own
language like french, and so on).
But as I wrote shortly before the genders discussion
is pretty pointless: every language has synonyms and
most languages can have diffrent genders and numbers.
The problem affect millions of term so I think it has
to be considerd even by english speaking people.
English can be the most important language in the
world, but it's not the only one.
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and so on are
not relatively small even on wikipedia: they count
nearly 340,000 articles.
Plus, what is not important today can be more
important tomorrow: the so called third world is
growing up (lukily) pretty faster.
Don't get offended, but you sound a little bit snob
and english-culture-and-language-centric. Shouldn't be
the wiki project democratic and open to everybody
culture, even to the "not-important-people" culture
and language?
Regards,
V.F.
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