[Wiktionary-l] Case - Sensitivity for Wiktionaries

Sat May 29 13:56:52 UTC 2004

Hello.

On the german Wiktionary, 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's very important to have and to see a / the difference between upper- 
and lowercase words.

What do you think about that idea? Should it be voted on all the local 
Wiktionaries or only discussed here? Which shouldn't be converted?

Sincerly yours,
Ronny Raschkowan
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