On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 23:18 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
We've discussed which style of capitalization should be used on our wiki.
Couple of years ago I changed requirement to use Wikipedia style and gave example of "Benefits of Open Office" and "Benefits of open office" as sample where first can't make difference between institution called Open Office and work style that keeps some office open in some way, while Wikipedia style is clear in that proper noun is written capitalized, and all other nouns not.
The currently active Wiki Team is for Wikpedia style, but as we are not alone on the wiki, we need more opinions.
-- Regards Rajko,
I'm not in favor of this, nor do I think this is a decision under the Wiki Team. This is more a decision that affects the whole project and should be discussed more broadly. But I'm also not in favor of this because many of us have spent a lot of time educating others about the proper spelling of openSUSE. I wasn't present at the discussions that formulated the rules, but those rules are in place now and I think it's going to be a black eye on us all if we have to re-educate people, including the media, on what is the proper new name change. We're still struggling with people out there calling openSUSE Suse. Others still refer to openSuSE. or SuSE. We've explained it to many people. Now we have to re-educate them again? The rules, as I understand it are: - it is spelled openSUSE (One of the greatest distributions around is openSUSE.) - Except when beginning a sentence, then it is capitalized. (OpenSUSE isn't just one of the greatest distributions, it's the best!) If we vary yet again specifically for the wiki, that's just more confusing. -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org