[OSM-talk] Problems with the Multilingual Country-List

[Peter Körner]

Ed Avis schrieb:
> Peter Körner <osm-lists <at> mazdermind.de> writes:
> 
>> I'm sorry to tell you that there was a major issue with the Multilingual 
>> Country-List
> 
> I'm glad you mentioned it because I missed the original announcement.
> The site is
> 
> <http://cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/>
> 
> But I don't really understand what it is reporting?
If you got plenty of time, you may want to start reading the original 
thread [1].

In short: a list of the languages a wikipedia exists for (read from 
[2]). For each language you'll get a list of all countries in the 
osm-database and their native name (default name), their name how it 
would be read in the selected language (translated name). You can then 
mark this translation as ok, if it's correct for this language, or to 
edit it via josm/potlatch if it isn't.

In the languages-list you see the percentage of all countries marked as 
ok for this language. Those translations will later be used for 
localized maps on wikipedia (see [3] for an old preview with many 
missing translations).

Peter


[1] 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-August/thread.html#40318
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
[3] http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/