Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I am happy to read that things have been discussed
with the
developpers. However, I find it hard to find what is discussed as the
link that is referred to is an already old thread on en:wiktionary. As
a consequence it is not clear and obvious what has been discussed.
Agreed, but we're all responsible for that, myself included. The right
thing for me to do would be to refactor my own old comments into my new
ones. :-)
An other problem is that as this is not an
en:wiktionary only issue,
meta would be a more obvious choise to host this discussion.
Not really. Many of us who are interested in the Wiktionaries may not
check into Meta that often. I would because I'm familiar with the
issue, but I guarantee that there will be some who will complain that
they were not warned about the change. Although I passively support the
change on the other languages my vote there would mean as much as the
votes by IP numbers that now appear in English. It comes down to a
matter of process. In what languages would the knowledgeable people
generally oppose this? Probably the only languages where this might not
be such a big issue are those that do not use capitals in the first place,
To me, there are two issues.
*Having correct content, this can be better assured without
capitalisation of the first character.
*How to find stuff, this may mean that the search may have to be blind
for capitalisation.
I think the second option would be a nice to have while the first is a
must have. I am convinced there are errors in nl:wiktionary because I
just do not see the difference between some capital and undercase
letters, the difference does not register. I can live with the second
coming life after the first.
I find it hard to conceive how the first would work effectively, without
the second being in place.
Ec