[Wikipedia-l] Alternative language wikipedias

[Jimmy Wales]

As an example, please examine deutsche.wikipedia.com, which is now existing but
of course only has a few words of English language from me in it just now.

--Jimbo


Jimmy Wales wrote:

> 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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