[Foundation-l] naming of things in kosovo

Thu Nov 11 14:59:13 UTC 2010

On 11/11/2010 03:26 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
> so I think there is a president for the english and albanian names in
> wikipedia.
> most of the names are in serbian, with strange characters that I cannot even
> type.
> this offends most contributors and prevents locals from contributing.
> also the serbs erase all albanian names from the referring links so I cannot
> even find what I am looking for.
> I would like to start to rename the articles to the albanian english
> spellings with normal typiable characters. Ideally we would use the albanian
> names and encourage the locals to edit. Right now there is a minority serb
> group that is making life unpleasant for the local contributors.

You don't think that this would offend Serbian contributors?