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Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [40398]trunk/extensions/LiquidThreads/Lqt.i18n.php
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Style guides of other open source products (I know at least of Fedora) use
'Title Case'. MediaWiki does not really have a style guide, but over time
core appears to not have used title case. Because core does not use it, some
rounds of consistency fixes have been done over the past year or so in
extensions, changing uses of title case to lower case. As we (or maybe I),
are more closely monitoring messages and i18n than a year or two years ago,
introduction of non-standard(ised) messages are usually corrected quickly,
which also tends to make it more visible for the author, I guess.
That's the history I know of. If I left anything out, it might be nice to
document that in this thread, too.
Wikipedia notes (in [[Capitalization]]): "In English-language publications,
varying conventions are used for capitalizing words in publication titles
and headlines, including chapter and section headings. The rules differ
substantially between individual house styles."
Cheers! Siebrand
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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces[at]lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Minute Electron
Verzonden: donderdag 4 september 2008 11:51
Aan: wikitech-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN:
[40398]trunk/extensions/LiquidThreads/Lqt.i18n.php
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Minute Electron
<minuteelectron[at]googlemail.com> wrote:
> Why has this been reverted? Most messages like this are in lower case
> and generally look better this way.
Nevermind, this was changed back.
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