[Foundation-l] Case - Sensitivity for Wiktionaries
Ronny Raschkowan <[email protected]>
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Hello. On the german Wiktionary [1], we have discussed about the case sensitivity for our Wiktionary and the purpose was voted pro. I asked TimStarling if it would be possible to convert then the de: Wiktionary to case-sensitivity, that means to turn the automatic capitalisation off. He said, he wouldn't do that for only one Wiktionary, but for all at a time. So I went here to ask you, what you would think about an case sensitivity for _all_ Wiktionaries. Sure, there would be a huge of broken links, but as the Wikis are still little and only have a few articles, it is not a big problem to repair this. Except the en: Wiktionary, of course, as a special case, who would need long to be converted/ to repair the broken links. Why all this: Most of latin languages have most words with lowercase letters (ex.: german, french, english, ....). In the Wikipedia, it is not a big problem to have only uppercase letters. But in a dictionary, it is very important to have a difference between upper- and lowercase words. What do you think about that idea? Should it be voted on all the local Wiktionaries? Which shouldn't be converted? Sincerly yours, Ronny Raschkowan [[u:Fire]] -- [1]: http://de.wiktionary.org