[Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons

Fri Dec 29 21:56:03 UTC 2006

The discussion about Munich can be found at the top of the Village
Pump, or maybe in the latest archive by now.

Bryan

On 12/29/06, jkelly at fas.harvard.edu <jkelly at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>    Hi,
>
> Quoting Patrick-Emil Zörner <paddyez at yahoo.de>:
>
> > I am quite appalled about how things have a nasty tendency to a nasty
> > outcome on commons. München is being moved to Munich, Praha is moved
> > to Prague,... and all on a specious kind of based argumentation. I
> > know how the cities are called. I have seen the traffic signs! The
> > cities are actually called München, Praha,...
>
>   There's no reason why we shouldn't have a gallery at both [[Munich, Germany]]
> and [[München, Deutschland]].  If people aren't interested in maintaining both,
> then I suppose we could get really worked up about which one is the redirect and
> which one is the actual gallery, but it is a pretty trivial thing to argue over.
>  Categories are different, and should use English, with the goal of eventually
> translating based on user preferences.
>
>                      Jkelly
>
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