On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Nothing necessarily wrong with them, but we should be
consistent one way
or the other. If we're not using them generally, we should stick with
plain ol' quotes.
As I observed on IRC, this can also be inconsistent with user-added
content, which will most commonly use straight quotes. For instance,
the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style says
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MOS#Quotation_marks>:
"The exclusive use of straight quotes and apostrophes is recommended.
They are easier to type in reliably, and to edit. Mixed use interferes
with searching (a search for 'Korsakoff's' syndrome could fail to find
'Korsakoff's syndrome' and vice versa)."
MinuteElectron's comment was "eww, curly quotes".