Last modified: 2004-12-07 22:28:07 UTC
This bug comes as a result of the dicussion about the no.wikipedia use of the "no" but does not concern or cross the no.wikipedia community in particular (hard to get that right:). As of Names.php rev. 1.16.2.1 the norwegian languages are written like this: 'nb' => 'Bokmål', # Norwegian (Bokmal) 'nn' => 'Nynorsk' , # (Norwegian) Nynorsk 'no' => 'Norsk', # Norwegian to reflect the actual language situation, community consensus and proper norwegian grammar they should be changed to: 'nb' => 'norsk (bokmål)', # Norwegian (Bokmal) 'nn' => 'norsk (nynorsk)', # Norwegian (Nynorsk) 'no' => 'norsk', # Norwegian because language names are not capitalized in norwegian, and because Nynorsk is just as norwegian as Bokmal. This has been discussed/mentioned on the mailinglist: <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/18576> On the nn.wikipedia: <http://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia-diskusjon:Wikipedia_p%C3%A5_nynorsk> and has not been opposed by the no.wikipedia community (I'm not asking for the no --> nb move here). "Norwegian Nynorsk" is also used in the ISO 639 standard <http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html#mn>
This should be applied to all branches.
Fixed in all CVS branches and on the site.
I have upset some people with the change from "Norsk" to "norsk". If anyone receive flak for this please send it to me and I will hopefully be able to settle the issue. I should note that when I wrote "does not concern or cross the no.wikipedia community in particular" I wasn't really thinking about the above mentioned change, because I hadn't been considering it for very long. This is now being discussed here: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brukerdiskusjon:Wolfram#Norsk_--.3E_norsk:_OK.3F I have also tried to make a meta page that aim to make som kind of a standard for these language names: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_of_language_links
So, there has almost only been opposition against the decapitalization and I don't think its worth working against status quo on such a small thing. Additionally the "nb" entry was duplicated when fixinf this bug, therefore I'm reopening it so that: 1. In revision 1.1.2.5.10 (REL1_3A) the 'nb' line appears twice. Here the first appearance should replace the second. 2. All mentioned language names should have their first letter capitalized (but only the first). The result should be: 'nb' => 'Norsk (bokmål)', # Norwegian (Bokmal) 'nn' => 'Norsk (nynorsk)', # Norwegian (Nynorsk) 'no' => 'Norsk', # Norwegian I'm really sorry about this small messup, hopefully this is the end of it for some time.
Created attachment 163 [details] Updated Names.php from rev. 1.1.2.5.2.10 (1_3A branch) I have edited Names.php rev. 1.1.2.5.2.10 (1_3A branch) to fix this bug. I have also done additinal cosmetic changes (changed some comments), removed duplicates, alphabetized and removed the last comma. Please do a diff to check.
Created attachment 164 [details] Updated Names.php from rev. 1.16.2.2 (1_4 and MAIN branches) I have edited Names.php rev. 1.16.2.2 (1_4 and MAIN branches, as far as I can see) to fix this bug. I have also done additinal cosmetic changes (changed some comments), removed duplicates, alphabetized and removed the last comma. Please do a diff to check.
Committed to four branches. Deployed to wikipedia.org
