Yann Forget wrote:
Hi
I creayed this page on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Capitalization
To be classified:
....
Please, complete this list.
Shouldn't we add even all the other languages where we already know how
capitalisation needs to be? maybe creating a similar table:
Language - Language names - Days - Months - Planets - etc.
German - Upper - Upper - Upper - Upper
Italian - lower - lower - lower - Upper
etc.
This could then become a general reference for all - in particular new
wiktionaries who just would "like to know". Or people having a doubt
that would like to check things out and maybe correct errors.
It's just an idea ... as I was wondering about the names of the days in
French - now I now the must be lower case, but whoever inserted the
French names on the Italian wiktionary just copied and pasted - so the
error is for sure multiplied also on other wiktionaries. This means I
need to correct this on the Italian one and then check on the Japanese
wiktionary where they seem to come from.
I have the same doubts for Spanish, Esperanto, Turkish and Galician.
Frequent errors are made when people create new words with multi
language translations taking a word from wikipedia and following the
links - since wikipedias don't make difference between upper and lower
case in their header - it seems as if some people just copy and paste
this without veryfying if the same word within the text is capitalised
or not. I noted this problem when searching for Christmas terminology on
different wikipedias to create a link-page with all contents available I
can find on wiktionary/wikipedia.
And I'd like to take this occasion to once again check out the project
with the Christmas wishes here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Buon_Natale_e_felice_Anno_Nuovo%21
Please don't forget that recordings of "Merry Christmas and a happy New
Year" in many different languages are very important to promote the use
of commons in order to allow us to make wiktionary a "speaking" wiktionary.
Ciao, Sabine