Talk:Kaohsiung

message: : The city grew up from a small village called in the 17th century Dagou (打狗), which was the name of a local tribe or "bamboo forest" in the local tribe's language. 
The village was certainly not called "Dagou", which is Mandarin.  The Southern Min pronounciation is Táⁿ-káu, which sounded like "Taka-o" to the Japanese, who then wrote it as 高 (taka-) 雄 (o).  
i.e. {Austronesian word that sounded like Takao} -> written as 打狗 in Southern Min -> re-written as 高雄 in Japanese -> 高雄 pronounced Ko-hiông in Taiwanese/Kao-hsiung in Mandarin
A-giau 04:32, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Mandarin might have been the official language during the Ching dynasty and the ROC era but Southern Min was the language generally spoken by most of the early immigrants. I don't think it's unreasonable to use the Southern Min pronounciation under that context. Consider 九龍 in Hong Kong which is pronounced using the Cantonese pronounciation "Kowloon" rather the Mandarin "Jiǔlóng". -Loren 21:56, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I see what you're saying.  It does make a good case for using Southern Min, but I'm still not convinced that it should be used in exclusion to the Mandarin transliteration.  I suppose I can live with the current version.  The situation is different from Hong Kong, however, since the British government did adopted many of the Cantonese transliteration as official names. Uly 15:43, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name origin 

message: An anonymous editor recently removed the statement that Kaohsiung was the world's third-largest container port, noting that the third-largest is actually Pusan.  I thought I would add a reference.  According to , the  largest container ports in 2002, in order, are: Hong Kong, Singapore, Pusan, Shanghai, Kaohsiung, and Shenzhen.   asserts that Shanghai and Shenzhen are third- and fourth- largest ports as of 2003.  
But the order of top ports changes drastically dpending on whether one is ranking their traffic by tonnage or by container traffic volume.  According to a data file available from the American Association of Port Authorities, the top six by volume are as noted above, but the top six by gross tonnage are Singapore, Rotterdam, Shanghai, South Louisiana, Hong Kong, and Houston.  Ranked by tonnage, Kaohsiung was no higher than 10th.  Note that South Louisiana ranks very high by tonnage but not by container volume because it handles a lot of bulk cargo. 
I hope this information is helpful to someone. -- Dominus 14:45, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  World's Largest Container Ports 

message: Just in case you were wondering about a reference to my addition: --Zereshk 23:40, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sister cities

message: I don't think this is a good photo. It looks like it was taken inside a car, so it's kind of blurry.--Jerrypp772000 23:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: There is a discrepency is the opening date of the metro (2006 or 2007). From what I know, the line is not yet open... however I'm not sure. Can someone clarify? --the MOLIU gecko 14:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening date of Metro 

message: The lengths of  the entries  of  Chinese :
*:zh:臺南市（100,091 bytes）
*:zh:高雄市（99,854 bytes）
*:zh:臺中市（59,425 bytes）
*:zh:臺北市（53,990 bytes）
*新北市（40,127 bytes）
The lengths of  the entries  of  English :
*Taipei City（ bytes）
*Tainan City （ bytes）
*Taichung City （ bytes）
*Kaohsiung City （ bytes）
*New Taipei City （ bytes）
 
The length of  the entry  of  Chinese  of  Kaohsiung City is almost  reach to 100,000  bytes, but the length of  the entry  of  English of  Kaohsiung City is  only has （ bytes）,It is  need to be added.--Jackac (talk) 23:29, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Good observation, Jackac. Could you add or translate any sections you think are relevant to the English entries? Thanks, cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ  00:06, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed that holds true for many of the articles on locations in China, be it the mainland, the two SARs, or Taiwan. To me, translation is the easiest method of expansion, as you don't always have to find materials online, which massively consumes time. —HXL's Roundtable and Record 00:21, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
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message: I would like to upload a panorama picture of Kaohsiung, taken by me
Kaoshiung panorama.jpg|1440px|view of Kaohshiung from the light house en Cijin Island
Rubendene (talk) 00:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: . Great addition to this article. GotR Talk 00:27, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 22 July 2012 

message: Semi-protected the article for a few days to hopefully bring an end to the slow-moving edit war over whether the infobox and lead should mention ROC or just Taiwan. The protection is not an endorsement of the current version - it was just the most recent one when the protection was applied. 
I have no view on which option is preferable. But I suggest all those involved bring the discussion here and seek consensus, rather than endlessly reverting each other. Euryalus (talk) 07:33, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
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message: The montage of photos from locations in the city currently has no explanations. Can anyone add labels for what these pictures are, preferably with links to those locations' Wikipedia pages?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.74.122.103 (talk) 09:58, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
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message: Since there was some opposition to mentioning population rank over at Taichung (see discussion), I thought I'd run this by here first.
There was a considerable amount of recent news coverage about Taichung's population exceeding that of Kaohsiung's, pushing Kaohsiung's rank to 3rd in Taiwan.     These reports cite newly-released figures from the Ministry of the Interior 內政部 (MOI).  As far as I know, no sources or authorities have refuted the MOI figures. I think it would be helpful to include mention of Kaohiung's population (2.77 million) and rank (3rd) in the lead, as a summary of demographic info and as is standard with other 2nd (e.g. Yokohama, Busan) and 3rd (e.g. Osaka, Incheon) most populous cities in other countries. Thoughts? Multivariable (talk) 00:26, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: On second thought, it might be better to wait until the Taichung dispute is resolved first before making changes here. Multivariable (talk) 00:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

text: Apparently, Kaohsiung's population and rank were already in the article and were only recently removed  for unspecified reasons. Seems like adding that info back is pretty straightforward then. If anyone has any comments, feel free to join us over on the Taichung discussion page. Thanks! Multivariable (talk) 23:00, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
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