I've been looking at the id structure of dbpedia and wikipedia and
finally found an example where case sensitivity issues really bite.
Cases like this with a redirect are a little obnoxious,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_york_city
largely because
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Paul Houlep...@ontology2.com wrote:
I've been looking at the id structure of dbpedia and wikipedia and
finally found an example where case sensitivity issues really bite.
We should keep in mind that case isn't so clear-cut if you move away
from English, though
Case insensitivity shouldn't be a problem for any language, as long as
you do it properly.
Turkish and other languages using dotless i, for example, will need a
special rule - Turkish lowercase dotted i capitalizes to a capital
dotted İ while lowercase undotted ı capitalizes to regular undotted
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark Williamsonnode...@gmail.com wrote:
Case insensitivity shouldn't be a problem for any language, as long as
you do it properly.
Turkish and other languages using dotless i, for example, will need a
special rule - Turkish lowercase dotted i capitalizes to a
On 7/28/09 10:04 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark Williamsonnode...@gmail.com wrote:
Case insensitivity shouldn't be a problem for any language, as long as
you do it properly.
Turkish and other languages using dotless i, for example, will need a
special rule -
Since when does Spanish drop accent markers in capital form? If you
have seen anybody do this, it is just a misspelling. For example:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ópera or
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/África or
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Océano_Índico
I have been told that Greek drops accents
The related wikipedia article write that it was a urband leyend:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuaci%C3%B3n_de_las_may%C3%BAsculas
So is wrong to drop these accents.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Mark Williamsonnode...@gmail.com wrote:
Since when does Spanish drop accent markers in
On 7/28/09 10:30 AM, Tei wrote:
The related wikipedia article write that it was a urband leyend:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuaci%C3%B3n_de_las_may%C3%BAsculas
Dang! I've been taken in again by exposure to real-world practice
instead of what's correct. ;)
(In any case, handling that
2009/7/28 Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com:
Since when does Spanish drop accent markers in capital form? If you
have seen anybody do this, it is just a misspelling. For example:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ópera or
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/África or
Georgi Kobilarov wrote:
In this particular one, it's two articles about the
same
topic, but there could be some cases where the two articles are about
something different.
Yes, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROG
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog
I agree that this can be
2009/7/10 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com:
Seems you don't know the pipe trick. Type [[Lang:Project:Page|]] and it
will be automatically expanded to [[Lang:Project:Page|Page]] on save.
Thank you Platonides!
I really didn't know this trick.
So, wouldn't be better to avoid duplication of long
2009/7/28 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
A nearer-term help would be to go ahead and implement what we talked
about a billion years ago but never got around to -- a decent did you
mean X? message to display when you go to an empty page but there's
something similar nearby.
If it's at
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Helder Geovane Gomes de
Limaheldergeov...@gmail.com wrote:
So, wouldn't be better to avoid duplication of long texts making
[[Lang:Project:Page|]] remains unexpanded on save (but still pointing
to Lang:Project:Page and showing the text Page)?
Yes, the pipe
I've done a first pass through the committer request queue; for starters
I'm mostly sticking in extension maintainers:
algorithmix - DynamicPageList
beckr - SlippyMap
churchofemacs - general fixes
conrad - Wiktionary-specific extensions
flominator - WikiBlame
greenreaper - MediaWikiAuth, misc
Brion Vibber wrote:
On 7/28/09 10:30 AM, Tei wrote:
The related wikipedia article write that it was a urband leyend:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuaci%C3%B3n_de_las_may%C3%BAsculas
Dang! I've been taken in again by exposure to real-world practice
instead of what's correct. ;)
Once
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I've done a first pass through the committer request queue; for starters
I'm mostly sticking in extension maintainers:
algorithmix - DynamicPageList
beckr - SlippyMap
churchofemacs - general fixes
conrad -
Дана Tuesday 28 July 2009 19:16:22 Brion Vibber написа:
On 7/28/09 10:04 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark Williamsonnode...@gmail.com
wrote:
Case insensitivity shouldn't be a problem for any language, as long as
you do it properly.
Turkish and other
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