Rick, did you read the list of reasons why it should not be there? It's not the
question of _my feeling_. It's a question about _approach to users_ of MW. Keeping it
there is same like you'd said to whoever "Don't you worry, you can have
unsafe sex, because there are ways how to cure veneral diseases." Isn't better to
prevent the cure? Isn't better to prevent superfluous overriding (= wasting the time
to solve something which did not have to be solved if there was no limitation)? It's
always better to remove the cause than to solve consequences. And on the other hand - if
you said you are willing to make tweaks, so if you prefer lowercase, tweak it yourself,
but don't push it to others. As I said, I'd bet that lowercase override would be
used by significant minority. Default style should be in what-you-wrote-is-what-you-get
manner - that's a basic principle of being user friendly. Please check the reasons I
wrote before and tell me if you have any objection against them or if you have any
rational reason of same weight to keep that property assignment.
Danny B.
PS: Disagreeing is your choice and I respect it as your opinion. There's no need to
excuse. :-)
------------ Původní zpráva ------------
Od: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com>
Předmět: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please remove the wrong property from globalmonobook
stylesheet
Datum: 17.7.2006 14:11:00
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On 7/17/06, Danny B. <Wikipedia.Danny.B(a)email.cz> wrote:
I don't need to create new theme. I just wish
to _correct_ one of the mistakes
in the current monobook, since that property is a
nonsense because of reasons
described before which Brion cut out in his mail.
Sorry to disagree with you but it's not nonsense.
Monobook is default theme in default installation
of MediaWiki. Default theme
_should not_ be confusing and _should not_ pressurize
people to do unnecessary
work which current monobook with this property assignment actually does.
Monobook is the default theme for wikipedia and other wikimedia
projects, which have made certain aesthetic decisions about style. If
you don't like the style, you are free to create a new one. Many of
us are perfectly happy with the style as it is, and/or are willing to
make tweaks to suit ourselves.
--
Rick DeNatale
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