Jo wrote:
I organized a new vote on the subject of first letter capitaliztion on en.wiktionary.org:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/First_letter_capitaliz...
after the previous one went awry:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/case-sensitivity_vote
What went wrong in the first vote is that it wasn't clear what was being voted for. We got a lot of people we hardly saw making contributions to Wiktionary voting against, back then. This time all the major current and longtime contributors to the project are in favour of switching off First letter capitalization.
What is the next step? Should we ask a developer? Is it enough to ask on this mailing list?
Many thanks for your advice,
Polyglot
Thank you for your efforts in dealing with this. It has been a month since the vote was started. The 13-2 current vote in favour is seems to be a mandate to take this to the next step.
The confusion in the earlier vote on this topic was partly because questions involving the use of bots and the functionality of the search engine were mixed in. By contrast, this time the question was kept to its simplest form.
Rather than having a developer suddenly go ahead now and toggle some switch, our next step should be to consider haw we can implement this in a project that already contains nearly 60,000 articles in its principle namespace with minimized disruption.
Ec