Labels should not be converted into Title Case
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	Quiddity
	Aug 3 2023, 4:51 PM

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Steps to replicate the issue:

Open https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z10000
See the "Enter inputs" labels are displayed in Title Case (First String and Second String)
Click the "Details" tab, and see the labels are written in lower case

What should have happened instead?:

Labels remain as written

Initial report by msz2001 in Telegram:

the "Enter Inputs" message seem to be automatically converting itself to Title Case (as [[MediaWiki:Wikilambda-function-evaluator-enter-inputs/en]] contains the message in sentence case and I haven't found any other such message) - this is not viable for i18n, as in some languages such a casing is used very scarcely

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Drop all text-transform directives, not i18n-safe	mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda	master	+0 -20

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned Here: T343464: Text in other language should have lang and dir attribute

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Quiddity created this task.Aug 3 2023, 4:51 PM

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Msz2001 subscribed.Aug 3 2023, 6:01 PM

It also applies to the "Pass" / "Fail" labels regarding the test status on the function details page.

And the dialog "Test case details" content is also title-cased. (The dialog that's invoked by the (i) icon in the test cases table for a function).

Change 945868 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Drop all text-transform directives, not i18n-safe

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/945868

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I've noticed this too because it looks horrible in German, e.g.
On https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/de/Z12 if you expand the first part that says "texts":

"Art Der Datenobjekte Auflisten" (should be "Art der Datenobjekte auflisten")
"Objekte Auflisten" (should be "Objekte auflisten")

On https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/de/Z112:

"Eingaben Eingeben" (should be "Eingaben eingeben")

Since German uses capitalisation for nouns, I find title case much harder to read because it has an effect similar to garden-path sentences - it tricks me into expecting a noun but then it doesn't make sense so I have to re-read it.

Change 945868 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Drop all text-transform directives, not i18n-safe

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/945868

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