[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Suggestion: Pronunciation on all names

[David Gerard]

A suggestion from a reader, emailed to me:

> I'm not press, but this seemed the only access to the Wikipedes. (Mind you,
> I am a former newspaper columnist.)
> As a lexicographer, I admire Wikipedia, and offer one suggestion. Ask your
> contributors to indicate pronunciation where needed.
> For instance, I had to look up an actress with the first name of "Cote." Is
> it [COAT]? [ko-TAY]? [KO-tay]?


Quite a few of our articles on people include the pronunciation, but
it's far from universal. Would anyone be interested in a drive to fill
out pronunciations? (What groups of Wikipedians are fans of this
stuff?) Adding a field in the infoboxes might help too.


- d.