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Revision as of 18:46, 18 March 2001 by Dick Beldin (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)This page will eventually be refactored to be a list or presentation of our foreign language versions. But for now, we can use it as our International Misplaced Pages 'Talk' page.
I have set up Catalan and Deutsch (or Deutsche, that's still up in the air!), and I anxiously expect there to be some problems or complaints as people start to use them.
I am going to avoid setting up nihongo.wikipedia.com (japanese.wikipedia.com) until I better understand how well or poorly it might work. Unless, of coures, RoseParks asks me to hurry up and do it anyway, in which case I just will, but without any promises that it will work well or at all. :-)
I think that we should have French and Spanish next, but I don't know how to write 'French' and 'Spanish' correctly. If someone will tell me, I will set them up.
And then any other languages can be set up very quickly.
I would anticipate that a certain amount of "critical mass" is necessary in order for a wiki to "take off". Without 5-10 people eagerly writing and arguing and playing with each other, it wouldn't be as much fun. So I encourage anyone who likes to have a wiki in their own language to also go out and announce/recruit for it. :-)
How's about using ccTLDs instead (like de, fr, it, jp, tw and so on). This might save some trouble.
Spanish has two problems. If you go with Español, you have the problem of the letter "ñ" that you can not use in links. But not all Spanish speakers will call their language Español, but Castellano (Castilian). I do not know what is the current consensus. I'll do some research. (Every Spanish speaker will recognize Castellano and it has standards. -- DickBeldin)
Notice that there I do not need a single answer. I can point multiple domain names at the same Spanish language site. So I can use:
- espanol.wikipedia.com
- spanish.wikipedia.com
- castellano.wikipedia.com
- supaingo.wikipedia.com (Japanese!)
That sounds good, though I doubt of the usefulness of supaingo :)----
RoseParks asks that you to hurry up and do it anyway, without any promises that it will work well or at all. Doozo...