Amire recently brought up an issue with the existing styling of the
profile page [1]. Usernames in MediaWiki land are case-sensitive so
the user "Jdlrobson" is different from "jdlrobson" (yes this is
bizarre but this is the way it is).

On the profile page the design relies on the username being the
heading and being uppercase which is misleading. To add to this, to
quote Amire word for word "Furthermore, applying uppercase to any
alphabets except Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian and Georgian does
pretty much nothing. This means that for usernames in Chinese, Thai,
Hindi, Arabic and many other languages this style definition is
meaningless.

Finally, in Turkish and Azeri the letter 'i' changes somewhat
unexpectedly with the uppercase transform. It's a minor issue, but an
issue nevertheless.
"

So I've been noticing a lot of our designs use uppercase text and it
would be good to question when it is okay to use uppercase and if we
should be using it (a lot of people don't like the idea that THE
COMPUTER IS SHOUTING AT ME!)

Would be interested in your thoughts so this issue doesn't come up
again (also would be worth documenting on the upcoming style guide
[2])

[1] https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:UserProfile/Jimbo_Wales
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56705

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