On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:32 PM, david@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
Revision: 40398 Author: david Date: 2008-09-03 21:32:05 +0000 (Wed, 03 Sep 2008)
Log Message:
Reverted 40375 'lower case'.
Modified Paths:
trunk/extensions/LiquidThreads/Lqt.i18n.php
Modified: trunk/extensions/LiquidThreads/Lqt.i18n.php
--- trunk/extensions/LiquidThreads/Lqt.i18n.php 2008-09-03 21:28:24 UTC (rev 40397) +++ trunk/extensions/LiquidThreads/Lqt.i18n.php 2008-09-03 21:32:05 UTC (rev 40398) @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ 'lqt-read-message' => 'Read', 'lqt-read-message-tooltip'=> 'Remove this thread from new messages. It will still be visible on its original talk page.',
'lqt-read-all' => 'Mark all as read',
'lqt-read-all' => 'Mark All As Read', 'lqt-read-all-tooltip' => 'Remove all threads from new messages.They will still be visible on their original talk pages. This operation is undoable.',
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Why has this been reverted? Most messages like this are in lower case and generally look better this way.
MinuteElectron.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Minute Electron minuteelectron@googlemail.com wrote:
Why has this been reverted? Most messages like this are in lower case and generally look better this way.
Nevermind, this was changed back. Sorry.
MinuteElectron.
Style guides of other open source products (I know at least of Fedora) use 'Title Case'. MediaWiki does not really have a style guide, but over time core appears to not have used title case. Because core does not use it, some rounds of consistency fixes have been done over the past year or so in extensions, changing uses of title case to lower case. As we (or maybe I), are more closely monitoring messages and i18n than a year or two years ago, introduction of non-standard(ised) messages are usually corrected quickly, which also tends to make it more visible for the author, I guess.
That's the history I know of. If I left anything out, it might be nice to document that in this thread, too.
Wikipedia notes (in [[Capitalization]]): "In English-language publications, varying conventions are used for capitalizing words in publication titles and headlines, including chapter and section headings. The rules differ substantially between individual house styles."
Cheers! Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Minute Electron Verzonden: donderdag 4 september 2008 11:51 Aan: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [40398]trunk/extensions/LiquidThreads/Lqt.i18n.php
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Minute Electron minuteelectron@googlemail.com wrote:
Why has this been reverted? Most messages like this are in lower case and generally look better this way.
Nevermind, this was changed back.
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