Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Search and Categories/Disadvantages of '公共轉換組' in Wikipedia (Chinese Version)/Proposal

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  • Problem: '公共轉換組' in Wikipedia allows people to transfer Chinese to fit different places' registers. But the page for 'Traditional Chinese' only shows wordings of Traditional Chinese in Taiwan, which does not consider the difference in wordings. And through search engines, this affects the search results that all are presented in the form of Taiwan register, leading to misleading problems.:
  • Proposed solution: Using the format of 'Chinese (Taiwan) / Chinese (Hong Kong)' to present the content in the page of Traditional Chinese:
  • Who would benefit: Users of Traditional Chinese:
  • More comments: Having such formatting would be able to reduce misleading problems and help Chinese users to correctly know the difference in the use of wordings in different places. Moreover, there are cases like Doraemon's Chinese Name in Taiwan and Hong Kong being mixed up by journalists and some people commented that might be the problems caused by the search result of Wikipedia being shown only in Chinese wordings used in Chinese, which are not able to consider other places' reader (Related feedback: https://chinesedora.com/news/46661.htm). Although '公共轉換組' is a good function inside Wikipedia, the editorial policy only uses Taiwanese Chinese to present Traditional Chinese content shows great negative impact to web users, which through search engines to reach Wikipedia.:
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  • Proposer: 梁粉噹 (talk) 18:31, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]