Re: Case insensitivity Re: lists of what Aaron thinks is important for the wiki Re: Idea for navigation

Jeremy <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:52:41 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linuxquestions.wiki
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Aaron Peterson wrote:

> > 	I'd say that being case insensitive would be unfortunate.  When it
> > comes to Linux case matters and I think the wiki should reflect that.
> 
> Good point about linux being case sensitive, but.. how many commands are 
> different by one capitalization?
> 
> not very many

	It's more the principle that case *does* matter.
 
> The unfortunate part of the wikipedia case sensitivity is that the first 
> letter's capitalization doesn't matter.
> 
> > 	Talks about the wiki itself are *not* on topic for the main
> > namespace.
> There is no namespace for all i can tell, just an awkward convention... I made 
> a few suggestions on how to make the convention a bit better, but.. we are 
> having overlapping conversations.... a nice IRC chat would clear this all up 
> and we could post the history to the mailing list...
> 
	There are namespaces.  Talk: is one, LinuxQuestions_Wiki: is 
another.  The main namespace is the default one and has no identifier.

--jeremy