[Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons

jfulrich at mailaka.net jfulrich at mailaka.net
Wed Jan 3 01:28:17 UTC 2007


I agree.

                Laleena

---- Original Message ----
From: bastique at bellsouth.net
To: commons-l at wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:16:03 -0500

>It must have been a mental infarction.  Galleries are done using
>native
>language and redirects.  Categories have generally been done in
>English.
>
>~~~~ (Cary)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: commons-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
>> [mailto:commons-l-bounces at wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Brianna
>Laugher
>> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 7:43 PM
>> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons
>>
>>
>> On 02/01/07, Cary Bass <bastique at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> > I am fairly certain that the policy on Commons is that cities and
>other
>> > localities are in the native language.  Therefore München and
>Praha are
>> > absolutely correct and the categories must be fixed.
>>
>> No...
>> did you ever notice [[category:??]] ? (or even worse, maybe
>> [[category:transport in ??]]?)
>>
>> Nobody likes enforcing English-only categories to further
>Anglo-saxon
>> supremism or the like, but until we have proper category
>redirects...
>>
>> regards,
>> Brianna
>> user:pfctdayelise
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