Sabine Cretella wrote:

Yann Forget wrote:

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Hi

I creayed this page on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Capitalization

To be classified:

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Please, complete this list.

Shouldn't we add even all the other languages where we already know how capitalisation needs to be? maybe creating a similar table:

Language - Language names - Days - Months - Planets - etc. German - Upper - Upper - Upper - Upper Italian - lower - lower - lower - Upper etc.

This could then become a general reference for all - in particular new wiktionaries who just would "like to know". Or people having a doubt that would like to check things out and maybe correct errors.

It's just an idea ... as I was wondering about the names of the days in French - now I now the must be lower case, but whoever inserted the French names on the Italian wiktionary just copied and pasted - so the error is for sure multiplied also on other wiktionaries. This means I need to correct this on the Italian one and then check on the Japanese wiktionary where they seem to come from.

I have the same doubts for Spanish, Esperanto, Turkish and Galician.

Frequent errors are made when people create new words with multi language translations taking a word from wikipedia and following the links - since wikipedias don't make difference between upper and lower case in their header - it seems as if some people just copy and paste this without veryfying if the same word within the text is capitalised or not. I noted this problem when searching for Christmas terminology on different wikipedias to create a link-page with all contents available I can find on wiktionary/wikipedia.

And I'd like to take this occasion to once again check out the project with the Christmas wishes here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Buon_Natale_e_felice_Anno_Nuovo%21 Please don't forget that recordings of "Merry Christmas and a happy New Year" in many different languages are very important to promote the use of commons in order to allow us to make wiktionary a "speaking" wiktionary.

I totally agree, on my Google search to complete the list (which didn't yield very much as a result for the language names) I did encounter interesting info about the other kinds of words that may or not be capitalized. At least I found which languages don't have the concept of capitalization...

Polyglot

Hi Erdal,

Le Thursday 25 November 2004 15:39, Erdal Ronahi a écrit :

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So the generic question is "which languages captialize their language and ethnic pronouns?"

Turkish does.

Since you know Turkish, could you confirm what is the translation for Hindi ? I believe it is "Hintçe", and "Hindu" is people following the hinduism faith.

Greetings, Erdal

Thanks, Yann