thanks, one point of clarification even though it doesn't change much, isn't the first character case insensitive?
and a question. for languages without the concept of letter case how does this work/not work on those wikis? *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > Amire recently brought up an issue with the existing styling of the > profile page [1]. Usernames in MediaWiki land are case-sensitive so > the user "Jdlrobson" is different from "jdlrobson" (yes this is > bizarre but this is the way it is). > > On the profile page the design relies on the username being the > heading and being uppercase which is misleading. To add to this, to > quote Amire word for word "Furthermore, applying uppercase to any > alphabets except Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian and Georgian does > pretty much nothing. This means that for usernames in Chinese, Thai, > Hindi, Arabic and many other languages this style definition is > meaningless. > > Finally, in Turkish and Azeri the letter 'i' changes somewhat > unexpectedly with the uppercase transform. It's a minor issue, but an > issue nevertheless. > " > > So I've been noticing a lot of our designs use uppercase text and it > would be good to question when it is okay to use uppercase and if we > should be using it (a lot of people don't like the idea that THE > COMPUTER IS SHOUTING AT ME!) > > Would be interested in your thoughts so this issue doesn't come up > again (also would be worth documenting on the upcoming style guide > [2]) > > [1] https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:UserProfile/Jimbo_Wales > [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56705 > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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