RexxS added a comment.
In T184000#6011411 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000#6011411>, @JeanFred wrote: > In T184000#6007325 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000#6007325>, @RexxS wrote: > >> It is unfortunate that Wikidata chose to use prose fragment case, as that never gets used in any application that I'm aware of. > > I don’t understand why this would be unfortunate. One can trivially convert prose fragment case to the case you desire (by upper-casing the first letter), while the reverse is not-trivial (one cannot just lower-case the first letter, because it might be a proper noun). Or am I missing something else? Yes, you're missing the third example I gave: "eBay", which I expanded upon in a subsequent post : > The use of those descriptions is for sub-headings, which naturally begin with a capital, with the exception of stylisations like "eBay" and scientific terms like "nCov-19". There is a non-trivial and unbounded set of words that always begin with a lower-case letter in English. So if you try to "trivially convert prose fragment case to the case you desire (by upper-casing the first letter)" you come unstuck in an undefinable number of cases. Why not store the description in title case as is recommended for enwiki short descriptions? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Tgr, RexxS Cc: JeanFred, Bugreporter, DannyS712, Liuxinyu970226, Lofhi, MGChecker, Pbsouthwood, Deskana, Catrope, RexxS, Nikerabbit, Dbrant, Jdlrobson, Stashbot, WMDE-leszek, Elitre, gerritbot, TheDJ, Fjalapeno, Tbayer, MZMcBride, Alsee, bearND, Mike_Peel, Tgr, JKatzWMF, daniel, Bmueller, Addshore, Lydia_Pintscher, Samwilson, Aklapper, DannyH, darthmon_wmde, Ddurigon, Mateo1977, Nandana, aezell, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, Taquo, LawExplorer, catalandres, JJMC89, B20180, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Karthik_sripal, SBisson, Nakon, MusikAnimal, Fhocutt, Wikidata-bugs, Mooeypoo, aude, Ricordisamoa, -jem-, Jdforrester-WMF, Mbch331, Krenair
_______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
