[Wiktionary-l] Re: De-capitalisation-isation

Wed Jun 23 01:44:49 UTC 2004

Muke Tever wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:07:02 +0100, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>>> I don't remember it being a consensus at all. I seem
>>> to recall some being quite opposed to it.
>>
>>
>> Really? Can you provide links? I only remember people emphasising 
>> that  they don't mind because they think the current work-around 
>> work  perfectly for them. I seriously don't see how anyone can 
>> seriously be  opposed to having a dictionary with correct spellings. :/
>
>
> I disagreed,  
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wiktionary-l/2004-May/000018.html
> Polyglot said it could be done but he would vote against it also:  
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wiktionary-l/2004-May/000020.html
>
> By the way, how does search handle the existence of pages differing 
> by  capitalization?  If someone searches for <greek> (v. [1]), which 
> doesn't  exist, are they sent to <Greek>, which does? ... Are users 
> who are used to  case-insensitive search, or don't know the proper 
> capitalization of the  word, sent to <greek> when it is made, when 
> they might have wanted <Greek>  better?  Will every word where 
> capitalization is semantic have to be made  into a disambiguation page?
>
>
> I would *much* prefer that pages, instead of being case-sensitive, be  
> case-insensitive (even more than they are now, perhaps), with the 
> page  title in title case, and the regular capitalization indicated 
> inline, as  is now normally done.
>
>
>
>     *Muke!
> [1] "to fill a template with nonsense text, so that form and not 
> content  can be focused on"