[Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons

[daniel1978 at uol.com.br]

Yann,

Well, I didn't say I can "decide" anything. I just said what I think, can I 
do it?

Sorry, category redirects do not work well at all, and require permanent 
attention.
Can you imagine media divided in Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera, Svizzra....?
What is really the point? Language pride? I'm not offended to have 
categories such as "Brazil" or "Italy".

Extreme examples are quite illustrative. What do you think about more than 
20 category names for India?

I'd really want to understand what's really the problem...

Dantadd


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yann Forget" <yann at forget-me.net>
To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons


> daniel1978 at uol.com.br a écrit :
>> Sorry, but categories should have English-language names only.
>
> How can you decide that?
>
>> How can someone find "Bridges in Athens" if the category title was
>> written
>> in Greek? Or "Palaces in Istambul"? Or "Rivers in India" (and what
>> alphabet
>> should we use in this last case?).
>
> Categories redirect works quite well, so this argument is not valid.
> See for example http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monte_Bianco
>
>> And category redirects do not work well, because they divide the media
>> and
>> cause more and more confusion.
>
> See above.
>
>> My mother tongue is not English, but it's clear to me that we must have a
>> lingua franca in order to understand each other.
>>
>> If a find a picture of Teheran and I want to categorize it I'll have to
>> find
>> the correct Persian name of the correct category? That doesn't make sense
>> to
>> me. People should know that is no offence to use English in order to
>> achieve
>> a greater good: communication and understanding.
>>
>> Dantadd
>
> Regards,
>
> Yann
>
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