https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37705
Marcin Cieślak <marcin.cies...@gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #9 from Marcin Cieślak <marcin.cies...@gmail.com> 2012-06-21
19:17:04 UTC ---
Speaking for myself only and not for community of any language, seeing "Polski"
on the sidebar always reminds me somebody invented this from the
English-centric point of view (it's just like saying "English", just
translated). In reality we don't speak this way, although now this has become
commonplace on the Internet unfortunately.
I stumbled upon this problem one day on Commons, which has a JavaScript feature
to greet users in their language and offer a switch. It was so clunky so I
proposed this change:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:AnonymousI18N.js&diff=54275686&oldid=54256563
Of course, we can't fit a sentence like "Ten artykuł po polsku" ("This article
in Polish") but we can probably say something like
- "wersja polska" ("Polish version") or
- "w języku polskim" ("in the Polish language") or
- "po polsku" ("in Polish")
Only first one could probably be capitalized, as it makes a good title as well
(none of them forms a proper sequence).
So probably we should really have "en français" and "po polsku". I guess
lowercase "на русском языке" would be fine as well. I think some translations
already include the word "language" ("Bahasa Indonesia" if I understand
correctly).
But for many languages (certainly many Slavic ones) using some phrase (a
pronoun + language name or three words) will be much better than just some
grammatical form of the language name.
Maybe something similar to the abovementioned change on Commons should be
attempted. Without it we can discuss capitalization of the first letter
forever.
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