2011/1/17 Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com>:
> I looked around, but as far as I can find MediaWiki only has the names
> in their native language available.
>
That's right, the English names aren't stored by MediaWiki. I guess if
we did that we'd have to have every language's name in every other
language, which would be a huge amount of data (371 languages, so we'd
need 371*371=137,641 translations).

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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