| alexhollender added a comment. |
Yesterday, offline, I mentioned to @Jdlrobson that I think we are discussing too many different things in this task simultaneously, and we should break the conversations out into separate tickets. His response was, ironically, that originally these were separate discussions and we combined them into one. However at this point I wonder if it's worth considering separate tasks?
Conversation 1) Don't capitalize because it some languages have no notion of capitalization (@Amire80 & others)
- thankfully this is somewhat easy to fix
Conversation 2) Don't capitalize because subtitles shouldn't be capitalized since they're not sentences (@Amire80, @Sjoerddebruin)
- this is up for debate. I think of the Wikidata description as a subtitle, and even though subtitles aren't sentences, they are typically capitalized. @Amire80 the opinion to capitalize is seems to be supported by some design and product members (including myself), see T131013#2244140, T131013#2289870, T131013#4932344.
*Conversation 3)* Don't capitalize because there are some edge-cases for which capitalization might cause awkwardness (Jon, Volker)
- this seems rare enough that we can maybe ignore it?
*Conversation 4)* Don't capitalize because Wikipedia editors will get confused and think (incorrectly) that when editing Wikidata they should capitalize the descriptions (@Lydia_Pintscher)
- It seems there is consensus that data storage (Wikidata) and presentation of content (Wikipedia) should be de-coupled. In other words, it should be up to the client to determine how to present the data. It also is clear that Wikidata wants un-capitalized descriptions. Therefore some additional work needs to be done such that the presentation of Wikidata on Wikipedia is not misleading/confusing editors. @Deskana and @Jdlrobson have recommended a number of solutions here.
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