Andrew Dunbar wrote:
I seriously don't see how anyone can seriously be opposed to having a dictionary with correct spellings. :/
Now this statement is pure rhetoric. I'm in favour of correct spellings and I'm sure everybody is. But there's more than one way to solve a problem and I'd like everybody to think this through and consider all possible ways to fix it before jumping in and making major changes.
You seem to be thinking of this as a much more "major change" than it really is. Again, this is only about removing an arbitrary technological restriction.
- Case fold nothing. (Timwi)
Heh, I'll focus on this one if you don't mind ;-)
Against 2:
- People are going to add duplicates thinking their word is not in the dictionary.
Are you thinking of people adding an article on, say, [[malayalam]] when the correct spelling [[Malayalam]] exists? Again, this is irrelevant to the discussion, it has nothing to do with the question at hand. People can *already* create pages at wrong spellings ([[Malaialam]], say). Yes, the switch would increase the potential, but adding redirects in the right places reduces it again, and so this is not an argument against.
- Quite a large number of entries will have to be changed back to uppercase after the script is run.
Have you read my original mail? Assuming your beloved current workaround actually works, *no* pages will need to be "changed back". Some might still need to be moved to lower-case, but only very few. You don't have to participate in this clean-up process if you don't want to.
- Words which differ only by case of any letter must be on separate pages. (proper nouns vs. common nouns vs. abbrevations & acronyms)
This is one major thing where you're going wrong. Why "must" they? They don't.
Because the name of the article is currently always uppercase, all the headings generated by the Wiki software are in uppercase - which is very unprofessional for a dictionary.
Bingo.
I've read some peoples' opinions that they would prefer one entry per page but this is never going to work because of homographs anyway.
One could always have article titles like [[kind (English)]] vs. [[kind (Dutch)]]. This makes linking extremely cumbersome, though.
Timwi