[Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization

[Jon Harald Søby]

Yeah, because it's sooo easy with the status quo.

2009/10/4 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>

> The issue I see is that if a computer doesn't have japanese character
> support, ja-wp would be hard to navigate.
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> ________________________________
> From: aokomoriuta <maillist at enmps.net>
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Sun, October 4, 2009 3:06:39 AM
> Subject: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization
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> Hello!
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> As User:mizusumashi said in wikitech-list, now in Japanese Wikipedia,
> it's proposed that to change sitename ($wgSitename) from "Wikipedia" into
> "ウィキペディア" at [[w:ja:Wikipedia:井戸端/subj/サイト名の設定を「ウィキペディア」にする提案]] (
> http://bit.ly/C7RPz).
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> wikitech-list member advised very useful thing for this changing, but it's
> a little more technical than I expected.
>
> I want to know how other lang wikimedians think that Japanese wiki(pedia)
> uses English word "Wikipedia" as its sitename and Project namespace prefix.
> Is it acceptable (if jawp users want)? Do we need to change it into
> Japanese word? Or don't need but recommended?
>
> And how about using "ウィキペディア" as sitename of "Wikipedia"?
> Some user says "ウィキペディア" is NOT localized or translated term of "Wikipedia"
> because it's only just [[w:Katakana]]-ized, and we must use other term (e.g.
> "ウィキ百科" - "ウィキ" is Katakana-ized of "Wiki", and "百科" is [[w:Kanji]] meaning
> "encyclopedia").
> Just for information, NOW we use "ウィキペディア" in left-top logo.
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> And more, some user says we don't must use "ウィキペディア" or other Japanese
> terms as Project namespace prefix but must use "Wikipedia", because that
> situation makes us easy to tell Project pages from other pages.
> How about to use different prefix for Project namespace from sitename for
> such reason?
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> Please tell me your opinion or WMF policy
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> Thanks.
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