[Wikipedia-l] Alternative language wikipedias
rose.parks at att.net
rose.parks at att.net
Fri Mar 16 05:43:55 UTC 2001
Vote for nihongo.wikipedia.com.
Question: Can people who do not have Japanese Language
Support on their computers see kanji, katakana, hiragana?
i.e. is www.asahishinbun.com viewable on a regular PC,
Mac??? I thought not.
As Ever,
Tired....
Ruth Ifcher
--
> I want to set up some alternative language wikipedias.
>
> French and German would be good, and Cdani has offered to not inflict his
> terrible English on us if we make a Catalan wikipedia. :-) (I'm just
> teasing, but he has expressed an interest.)
>
> I intend to setup the following domain names and wikis:
>
> french.wikipedia.com
> francais.wikipedia.com
> (both pointing to the same thing)
>
> german.wikipedia.com
> deustche.wikipedia.com
> (both pointing to the same thing)
>
> spanish.wikipedia.com
> espanol.wikipedia.com
> (both pointing to the same thing)
>
> Are those the right words to use?
>
> I would also consider
>
> nihongo.wikipedia.com
> japanese.wikipedia.com
>
> One problem is going to be technical support of these languages, since if there
> are "fancy letter" problems, I will not know much how to deal with them.
> Japanese
> is pretty much _all_ "fancy letters", but I assume that Linux/Apache/Perl will
> just
> magically support it? Or will they be forced to use non-fancy ASCII urls?
>
> Anyhow, it seems like a useful thing to do this.
>
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