User blog comment:Orkamat/Internationalization/@comment-149.254.234.239-20140511163414/@comment-1476364-20160719160658

If the term medieval upsets you, let us call it a pre-industrial society instead.

This wiki once had many active editors from Europe, so I was finding references to, for example, "first floor" that were confusing. Rather than "correct" this to American terminology, it seemed polite to use "upstairs" and the like.

I was also finding things like "1,5 metres" which is what "5 feet" becomes in some translations. There were actually very few cases where I changed 1,5 (or 1.5) of anything to 1 1/2.

I don't see that any of this required prior discussion.