Razgovor o Wikipediji:Babel

Duplicated language code in each box

I noticed that in every box, the language code is duplicated, unlike in other Wikipedias, the language code is written only once. Why is it so special over here? --Edmundwoods 06:39, 21 februar-вељача 2008 (CET)

Because this Wikipedia uses both Latin and Cyrillic alphabet. Some language-related articles have two versions. --OC Ripper 10:37, 21 februar-вељача 2008 (CET)

But the language code is only in Latin script and no Cyrillic code, why still need to be duplicated? --Edmundwoods 06:07, 22 februar-вељача 2008 (CET)

Oh now I get it. But why not this Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia use an automatic transcription system like the Serbian Wikipedia and the Chinese Wikipedia, so that Cyrillic and Latin can be transcripted automatically? I found that the two articles for the Serbo-Croatian language aren't identical. Btw is the number of articles here the total of both Cyrillic and Latin? --Edmundwoods 06:12, 22 februar-вељача 2008 (CET)

Idea of automatic transliteration was discussed here. Doing it automatically would create new issues with foreign names and there phonetic transliteration (and lack of). This is the mostly likely reason why majority articles here use Latin instead of Cyrillic. --OC Ripper 12:11, 22 februar-вељача 2008 (CET)