CaPiTaLiSaTiOn of the entire UI in the English language
The capitalisation on Diaspora is all over the place.
Can we pick an agreed method and get it rolled out across the board please?
If you look around you'll see some items are all 'lower case', others have 'A Capital For Each Word' and some are 'Capital letter only on the first word'.
It's a mess.
Some quick examples of what I mean, there are no doubt many more:
GP Sun 4 Jan 2015 6:14PM
Wow, I'm amazed by how wrong you define titles and how bad you see capitalization. Capitalization is professional-looking in English. It's not the case in French, but don't start mixing French rules with English rules, this is wrong! Le français a ses propres règles que l'anglais n'a pas! Laissez à Molière ce qui est à Molière et à Shakespeare ce qui est à Shakespeare.
Want a good example? Look at the English version of WordPress. WordPress is professional-looking, and it does use capitals everywhere.
Admire the use of capitals! "Log Out", "Comments I've Made", "Site Stats", "Right Now", "New Post", "Add Media", "Top Blogs", "Screen Options", "Space Allowed"… Get it?
Are these titles? No! But we don't care! If it's not a long text string (a sentence or almost a sentence), then it must respect the capitalization rules.
Proof That WordPress Is Professional
So don't start arguing with me that capitals are wrong, non-professional or old-fashioned. Capitals in English are a professional standard. It's not related to brand, it's not related to identity, it's not related to beauty. It's about English correctness.
In fact, there shouldn't even be a Loomio discussion about that.
StefOfficiel Sun 4 Jan 2015 11:52PM
The only inconsistency I find is "Invite your friends" that should be "Invite Your Friends" to be consistent with the rest.
GP Sun 4 Jan 2015 11:53PM
@stefofficiel Read the first post.
goob Mon 5 Jan 2015 5:35PM
Admire the use of capitals!
OK, now I know you're joking...
GP Mon 5 Jan 2015 7:49PM
@goob I did not make any joke. I simply pointed out the ridicule in your arguments.
Poll Created Mon 5 Jan 2015 11:30PM
Replace "Log out" with "Log Out" Closed Thu 8 Jan 2015 11:04PM
9 people agreed, this is a minority.
7 people abstained, which is OK.
2 people disagreed and especially 4 people blocked, which is still quite important.
That shows the proposal is rather controversial. Further discussion should be taken before another proposal, and that next proposal should have a broader scale for the sake of consistency and simplicity.
Yes, I agree: "Log out" should be rewritten as "Log Out".
No, I disagree: Keep it as is.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 40.9% | 9 |
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| Abstain | 31.8% | 7 |
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| Disagree | 9.1% | 2 |
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| Block | 18.2% | 4 |
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| Undecided | 0% | 255 |
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22 of 277 people have participated (7%)
GP
Mon 5 Jan 2015 11:32PM
For more consistency, and follow the decision of WordPress.
GP
Mon 5 Jan 2015 11:32PM
For more consistency, and to follow the decision of WordPress.
Lucas Meijer
Mon 5 Jan 2015 11:35PM
I do not think this addresses the issue OP was trying to resolve. For this to be solved we need to come up with some kind of standard to use on different parts of the site - not just decide about a single issue.
Deleted account · Sun 4 Jan 2015 2:30PM
In fact, these part of text are really not titles as there's no following text... I can only speak for french but the rule is to avoid capitalisation as much as possible. Generally, only the first letter of a sentence. In this case, the first letter of each item of a list. That's all. Even though the first letter of each word of a title was capitalized a few years ago, this way of doing is starting to disappear.