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I think that we should capitalize the article titles similarly as Wikipedia does. We should rather write [[some article]] than [[Some Article|some article]] or [[Some Article]]. The latter form is either hard to link or a mispelling in the text. Several proper nouns like the names of wikis would be an exception to this. We should simply look how they spell their community's name in their wiki, and use that form. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 09:41, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | I think that we should capitalize the article titles similarly as Wikipedia does. We should rather write [[some article]] than [[Some Article|some article]] or [[Some Article]]. The latter form is either hard to link or a mispelling in the text. Several proper nouns like the names of wikis would be an exception to this. We should simply look how they spell their community's name in their wiki, and use that form. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 09:41, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
:Ouch, I didn't notice that the wiki automatically capitalizes all words. This is wrong and should be changed. We are going to have articles about wikis that are in other languages than English. And not all languages use this sort of universal capitalization in titles. Examples of such languages: Finnish, Swedish, Russian, Estonian. You are bound to misspell the names of several wikis in these languages if you use universal capitalization. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 11:26, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | |||
==Case-sensitivity of the first character== | ==Case-sensitivity of the first character== | ||
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If the first character case sensitivity is turned on, we should still decide how to capitalize the pages outside the article namespace. Would it be "Category:Wiki" or "Cateogyry:wiki"? They use the form Category:Wiki in the English Wiktionary. If we used form "Category:Wiki", would there be "Category:Wiki guides" or "Category:Wiki Guides" then? I think that the "Category:Wiki guides" is better because it is similar to "some article" compared to "Some Article". [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 09:41, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | If the first character case sensitivity is turned on, we should still decide how to capitalize the pages outside the article namespace. Would it be "Category:Wiki" or "Cateogyry:wiki"? They use the form Category:Wiki in the English Wiktionary. If we used form "Category:Wiki", would there be "Category:Wiki guides" or "Category:Wiki Guides" then? I think that the "Category:Wiki guides" is better because it is similar to "some article" compared to "Some Article". [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 09:41, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
I created a table to present and clarify my ideas. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 11:26, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | |||
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|| Article title ||What it looks like | |||
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||Common noun || ''article'' | |||
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||Proper noun || How it is properly spelled: ''Wikipedia'' | |||
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||Several words || ''example article''; ''comparison to Wikipedia'' | |||
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||Category title || What it looks like | |||
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||Common noun || ''Category:Maintainance'' | |||
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||Proper noun || ''Category:WikiIndex'' | |||
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||Several words || ''Category:Helping WikiIndex''; ''Category:Guides for editors'' | |||
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