Andrew Dunbar wrote:
I seriously
don't see how anyone can seriously
be opposed to having a dictionary with correct
spellings. :/
Now this statement is pure rhetoric. I'm in favour of
correct spellings and I'm sure everybody is. But
there's more than one way to solve a problem and I'd
like everybody to think this through and consider all
possible ways to fix it before jumping in and making
major changes.
You seem to be thinking of this as a much more "major change" than it
really is. Again, this is only about removing an arbitrary technological
restriction.
2. Case fold nothing. (Timwi)
Heh, I'll
focus on this one if you don't mind ;-)
Against 2:
* People are going to add duplicates thinking their
word is not in the dictionary.
Are you thinking of people adding an article on, say, [[malayalam]] when
the correct spelling [[Malayalam]] exists? Again, this is irrelevant to
the discussion, it has nothing to do with the question at hand. People
can *already* create pages at wrong spellings ([[Malaialam]], say). Yes,
the switch would increase the potential, but adding redirects in the
right places reduces it again, and so this is not an argument against.
* Quite a large number of entries will have to be
changed back to uppercase after the script is run.
Have you read my original mail? Assuming your beloved current workaround
actually works, *no* pages will need to be "changed back". Some might
still need to be moved to lower-case, but only very few. You don't have
to participate in this clean-up process if you don't want to.
* Words which differ only by case of any letter must
be on separate pages. (proper nouns vs. common nouns
vs. abbrevations & acronyms)
This is one major thing where you're going wrong. Why "must" they? They
don't.
Because the name of the article is currently always
uppercase, all the headings generated by the Wiki
software are in uppercase - which is very
unprofessional for a dictionary.
Bingo.
I've read some peoples' opinions that they
would
prefer one entry per page but this is never going to
work because of homographs anyway.
One could always have article titles like [[kind (English)]] vs. [[kind
(Dutch)]]. This makes linking extremely cumbersome, though.
Timwi