[Foundation-l] Translation of the language names

[Casey Brown]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is hard to believe that we don't have translations of the
> Wikimedian language names in the Wikimedian languages. So, please, do
> that starting from the page:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_names
>

Sorry, but what exactly is the point of this?  Isn't it best to use
the language in its proper name (or language code) whenever possible?

i.e. instead of us using "Japanese", shouldn't we refer to it by "ja"
and/or "日本語"?

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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