[Foundation-l] Case - Sensitivity for Wiktionaries

Sat May 29 13:58:43 UTC 2004

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]]

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[1]: http://de.wiktionary.org