Andrew Dunbar wrote:
I'm also convinced proper capitalisation is crucial for a dictionary project. But I'm not convinced Timwi's solution is the best way to go about it.
This suggests to me that you don't understand what all of this is about. Apparently many people have misunderstood all of this, which is a real shame, because now we have loads of "no" votes from people who thought they are voting against something else.
Currently the software automatically capitalises the first letter of pages. "kind" automatically becomes "Kind", "isiZulu" automatically becomes "IsiZulu". As a consequence, we cannot have separate pages for [[kind]] (Engl. adj.) and [[Kind]] (German noun).
This is *only* about *removing that technological restriction*.
Almost all concerns raised, such as those with the search engine or with the linking etc.etc., are *irrelevant to this*. They are separate issues, and many of them *are* already issues that are neither worsened nor solved by this. This is *not* a miracle cure, and there is *no* point in opposing it just because it isn't a miracle cure.
I want separate words to be on separate pages if they are spelt differently. This is currently the case, with the arbitrary exception of first-letter capitalisation. I want to remove that. I want "Kind" and "kind" be separate pages. Examples that were given that should remain on a single page are essentially the same word (such as English "Cynosure" and German "Rot").
Removing the technological restriction of having it force capitalisation on us *DOES NOT REQUIRE* us to reparate those out into separate pages. So don't vote "no" because you don't want that, that's a different vote!
I hope I made things clearer now. Timwi