[Wikipedia-l] Moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org
Stephen Gilbert
canuck_in_korea2002 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 14 03:02:31 UTC 2002
Exactly. Why do we need anything other than the name
of the language? It's the clearest, easiest way.
I hate to try to click a world map trying to get to
the Basque language....
Stephen G.
--- tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> wrote:
> Flags & Maps -- both far too complicated. And
> they're contentious issues
> just waiting to explode in our faces.
>
> Flags -- which ones to use? What to do for languages
> spoken in many
> countries? What to do for countries which speak
> several languages?
> World Map -- what about mixed areas? What about the
> load time for the
> image? It'll have to be pretty big to show the
> different areas of
> Switzerland, no?
>
> What is the *basic, driving* idea behind these
> suggestions? to make it
> simple for people to find their language on the
> portal page.
>
> The simplest thing is still to have the name of each
> language, in words.
>
>
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