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:For what it's worth, though, it's often useful to distinguish between a capitalized word and a lower-case word; see [[MAVEN]] and [[Maven]] for an example of this. We also use a lot of redirects, including the ones I just put on [[BlackBerry bold]] and [[Blackberry bold]], when we don't need to make such a distinction. - [[User:Jredmond|Jredmond]] ([[User talk:Jredmond|talk]]) 03:15, 16 September 2011 (UTC) |
:For what it's worth, though, it's often useful to distinguish between a capitalized word and a lower-case word; see [[MAVEN]] and [[Maven]] for an example of this. We also use a lot of redirects, including the ones I just put on [[BlackBerry bold]] and [[Blackberry bold]], when we don't need to make such a distinction. - [[User:Jredmond|Jredmond]] ([[User talk:Jredmond|talk]]) 03:15, 16 September 2011 (UTC) |
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::Well, just to be precise, the [[WP:QUESTIONS]] page itself isn't a place to ask questions, but rather it is a directory of links that will direct you to the proper place to ask questions. :) |
::Well, just to be precise, the [[WP:QUESTIONS]] page itself isn't a place to ask questions, but rather it is a directory of links that will direct you to the proper place to ask questions. :) -- [[User:OlEnglish|<font size="5">œ</font>]][[User talk:OlEnglish|<sup>™</sup>]] 06:29, 22 September 2011 (UTC) |
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Suggest changing the wording
This item (emphasis mine) is technically accurate, but I believe it could be phrased better:
- Wikipedia is free and without advertisements. It is operated by a private, privately funded, non-profit foundation.
For a newbie, I believe this would sound as though we are funded by a secretive, rich sponsor, which couldn't be further from the truth! I suggest the following change:
- Wikipedia is free and without advertisements. It is operated by a private, non-profit foundation, mainly supported hundreds of thousands of individual donors.
-Pete (talk) 23:38, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
- How about "It is operated by a private non-profit foundation, and supported mainly by individual donors"? We could also provide a link to a generic donations page. - Jredmond (talk) 04:54, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- I agree, your version is generally better -- but some indication of the vast scale of the number of donors is needed. I think one link is enough; but maybe we should link to the donations page (people can get to the WMF page through that if they like). How about:
- It is operated by a private non-profit foundation, supported by hundreds of thousands of individual donors.
- Done. I tweaked the link a bit; this one should be more generic currency-wise, and detect the user's local currency based on their geoIP results. (I swiped that code from the foundationwiki "Donate" link.) If it doesn't work, and people outside the US are only able to donate in USD from that link; then please let me know here. - Jredmond (talk) 21:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Site is Case Sensitive
Site is case sensitive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Bold and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_bold are to different pages on wiki it should not do that (web links should not be case sensitive), was not sure where I should place this queston (I changed Bold to bold, i was looking at wiki curve page link so i just replaced it with bold when i found this minor issue as it sayed there was not article) Leexgx (talk) 09:50, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
- Check out Wikipedia:Questions - that's the main place to ask questions about how to use the site. This page doesn't get nearly as much traffic as that one, so if you ask a question here then we may not see it right away.
- For what it's worth, though, it's often useful to distinguish between a capitalized word and a lower-case word; see MAVEN and Maven for an example of this. We also use a lot of redirects, including the ones I just put on BlackBerry bold and Blackberry bold, when we don't need to make such a distinction. - Jredmond (talk) 03:15, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
- Well, just to be precise, the WP:QUESTIONS page itself isn't a place to ask questions, but rather it is a directory of links that will direct you to the proper place to ask questions. :) -- Ϫ 06:29, 22 September 2011 (UTC)