Gerard.
It is very much like you to attack someone for a short comment with
little meaning attached.
I said:
>Because they speak Afrikaans, and would be able to
give the view of a
>native speaker.
And you told me that I may know a lot about languages, but nothing
about Wiktionary. That response is uncalled-for. It is insulting,
untrue, and on top of that a slap in the face after my having just
begun to monitor inactive Wiktionaries a week or so ago.
You do not speak Afrikaans (this, not "African", is the English name
as well). Different languages may have peculiar capitalisation rules,
which require headwords to be capitalised.
The simple input of a native speaker is not difficult to obtain, and
we would do well to get it. We can ask them, "in Afrikaans
dictionaries, are headwords capitalised?". And they will answer us.
Very easy.
But you choose instead to make blanket assumptions about all
languages, and to tell me what I do and don't know.
My brain is my own, and only I know which things I do and don't know.
I do not plan on giving you my brain anytime soon, either, thank you
very much.
Good day to you, sir.
Mark
On 15/07/05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Mark,
You may now something about languages, but you have no clue about
Wiktionary. And if you did, I would welcome your comments about the ERD
that I posted here
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:ERD.jpg It is
a work in progress and it is working towards the Ultimate Wiktionary. I
can put dialects in there but I am not yet happy about this aspect as I
cannot truly enter simplified Chinese in there in a proper way. It also
places etymology on a different place from where it is traditionally
placed in the wiktionaries due to the fact that there are some that
differ depending on the meaning of a word.
As to capitalisation; any paper dictionary does not capitalise the words
that are in there unless they are capitalised as a rule. It is due to
some unfortunate history that it took so long to change the English
wiktionary. There are currently 19 articles in the African wiktionary,
Jcwf may want to use the same system of templates that are used in many
of the other wiktionaries. To do this it helps to have capitalisation
turned off.
I second his request to turn capitalisation on the af.wiktionary off.
Thanks,
GerardM
Mark Williamson wrote:
Mark
On 15/07/05, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
>Angela wrote:
>
>
>>Ashar's request was to ask af.wikipedia, not Wiktionary about this,
>>and they have 4000 articles and a reasonably active, though small,
>>community.
>>
>>
>If none of them participates in Wiktionary, why does their opinion count
>any more than anyone else's?
>
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