[Wikipedia-l] Capitalisation on the French Wiktionary

[Gerard Meijssen]

Peter Gervai wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:49:36PM +0200, Yann Forget wrote:
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>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Capitalisation is now only an option in the French Wiktionary.
>>
>>So, f.e., now [[allemand]] and [[Allemand]] are two different articles.
>>
>>All language names are lower cases in French.
>>    
>>
>
>Please enlighten me.
>
>I see why it is good to be able to call an article [[pH]], so that's okay.
>
>However, I fail to see the point why [[ph]] [[pH]] and [[Ph]] have to be
>different articles. Can someone show an example where different
>capitalisation result different words which require separate articles?
>
>I'd say if someone links to [[ph]] it should find [[pH]], and editing [[ph]]
>would open [[pH]] for edit.
>
>thanks
>peter
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This is an old argument; particularly for Wiktionary it makes a hell of 
a lot of difference. It is about different words that should be 
recognised as such.

allemagne and Allemagne are two different things.

Thanks,
    GerardM