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Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2005-03/First letter capitalization

Hi fellow Wiktionarians. I'm going to bring up a hot topic again, turning off of first letter capitalization on en.wiktionary.org. We have wanted it since the beginning, but when finally it became technically possible, it was outvoted by people who weren't even that large contributors and who are also not around any more. They forced us into the status quo back then and everything had to be left the way it was, when the English Wiktionary got started. This vote is about the simple question of whether we want this feature. Because of the size of this project, a positive vote does not imply that the change will be made immediately. Further discussions about how to implement that decision will be necessary. Eclecticology This introduction is bristling with POV: "We have wanted it since the beginning" "it was outvoted by people who weren't even that large contributors" "They forced us into the status quo back then" — Hippietrail 13:34, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) You are right. Most of the above is my opinion about the matter. They are all the reasons why I wanted to restart the vote. In fact it was outvoted by people who mostly weren't and stil aren't contributors at all. Since I was around in the beginning of the project, I can tell you that one of the recurring questions back then was indeed about this capitalization. We had to make do with the software created to build an encyclopedia tough, so we did. I don't know how to start a vote without expressing my opinion. I can only tell you that differences in capitalization policies between projects are a pain to work around. Sorry for being calculating and manipulative. Polyglot 14:55, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) In the mean time the following 24 Wiktionaries already went ahead and switched over: 'cs', 'de', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'gu', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'kn', 'ku', 'nl', 'sa', 'scn', 'sq', 'sv', 'sw', 'tlh', 'tokipona', 'tr', 'vi' (Taken from pyWikipediabot) Many by the same people, most of tiny size in comparison to en. This smells like a tactic to try and make it look popular purely as a calculated step to get en to change. — Hippietrail 13:34, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) vi: was switched over without a majority vote: 1 for, 1 against. But I'm not bitter about it. :) In addition, tokipona: shouldn't matter since it wasn't even started, and the companion Wikipedia was shut down. – [[User:Mxn|Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog)]] 21:53, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC) As far as I know the ones that didn't switch over are either unpopulated or their languages simply don't have an alphabet that allows capitalization. Polyglot 10:46, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC) -- That's about right. -Ec 'pl' has not switched over. \Mike 15:20, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC) So who wants to switch off first letter capitalization and thus have two separate pages for kind (English, Dutch) and Kind (German)?