[WikiEN-l] cleaning up the Kosovo geographic names

[Fred Bauder]

> Hi there,
> I am working on a suggested set of guidelines for improving the poor
> quality of the kosovo geographical articles while avoiding edit wars.
> I wrote up a summary here and would appreciate any comments and support.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont#Naming_and_status_of_Kosovo_pages
>
> Basically my points are :
> 0. There is no point in trying to rename the funny characters in the
> serbian named articles, but we can hope to improve the quality in
> general.
> 1. we need to make sure the english language articles are useful for
> English speaking people dealing with albanian and serbian names.
> 2. we need to get rid of the POV forking of the Districts of Kosovo in
> Serbia. We dont need parallel articles describing the same
> administrative structures.
> 3. I need an agreement from the serbian wikipedia team that they will
> not continue to remove the albanian names from the articles, we need
> to encourage more local kosovar editors and I have been recruiting
> many of them.
>
> I have send this mail to the list before, but it did not get through.
> We should setup  a wikipedia mailing list for the albanian language
> editors, can someone help with that?
>
> thanks,
> mike
>
> --
> James Michael DuPont
> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania
> flossk.org flossal.org
>

I support your efforts. Please take this to the Wikipedia:Serbian
Wikipedians' notice board and Project Serbia as well as keeping touch
with Albanian and Kosovo editors. Do something to get everyone involved
so that guidelines can be developed to deal with this matters.

Fred Bauder