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In other words, we don't want two pages, "Capital" and "capital", on the same subject; when we link to capital and Capital, ideally, the page should be the same. The question is just then whether we want to make the first letter capitalized or not. |
Swedish citizen.
Linus,
I think that there are only some relatively minor problems with using native names instead of English names. The problems have to do with what happens to web browsers if you go outside the standard English 26 character alphabet.
Actually, the software could automatically squish fancy letters into Latin automatically for the generation of URLs, for searching, etc. This would be a good solution. However... I am not sure how hard it will be.
I wouldn't point "Capital" to "capital". When anyone wants to link to "capital", he will write it like this: capital. But that links to Capital, not capital. Unless we want to start a convention where all lowercase-titled articles are always reached via redirection, which I don't recommend, I think we should just accept the fact that the first letter of all titles will have to be capitalized. -- Larry Sanger
I don't agree and I don't understand why the wiki software has all these "problem". They are getting in the way when it comes to creating the contents.
I think that the all main articles should reside in the word with the correct capitalisation (sic!). Then most of the words will be capitalised because they are names of places, persons, months or days in the week. Other words, where the wikipedia actually has the role of a dictionary instead of that of an encyclopedia, it is correct to spell with a lowercase-title.
I made the redirect from Capital to capital because somebody had already used Capital because it was in the beginning of a sentence and I didn't wan't to destroy that. The correct way for the person wanting to link to capital but in the beginning of a sentence would be to link to Capital. I think this is the correct way of doing it. I still don't think that the wiki software shall be allowed to dictate how we organise the contents. It is better if it is the other way around i.e. how we organise the contents dictates how the software will have to work.
Those should resolve to the same page.