Some languages of Africa need to support article titles that begin with a lowercase letter
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	Amire80
	Jun 1 2015, 4:32 PM

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I am visiting South Africa, and I heard a complaint here that in some languages that are spoken here article titles are often supposed to begin with a lowercase letter, but they are forced to an uppercase letter. An example is the article IBhayi in the Xhosa Wikipedia, which appears as "IBhayi", but is supposed to appear as "iBhayi".

Maybe it can be solved by setting $wgCapitalLinks to true, maybe by frequent use of DISPLAYTITLE on the projects, and maybe by something else.

I'll update the ticket when I learn more details about the requirements, but anybody who knows these languages well is welcome to suggest anything.

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Amire80 created this task.Jun 1 2015, 4:32 PM

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Krenair subscribed.Jun 5 2015, 8:56 PM

@Amire80: Have you learnt about the requirements?

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fr.wikipedia uses a template {{Minuscule}} with this code:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{NAMESPACE}}:}}{{#if:{{{1|}}}|<span lang={{{1}}}>{{lcfirst:{{PAGENAME}}}}</span>|{{lcfirst:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}|noerror}}

According https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4282320 there is one on af. too, but currently in use in the articles.

xh.wikipedia doesn't have such template (or it's not linked on Wikidata)

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Amire80 moved this task from Untriaged to Capitalization on the I18n board.Mar 25 2018, 6:28 AM

Does not look workable without specific requirements on what languages it concerns and probably some form of approval from the respective communities, etc.

RhinosF1 subscribed.Feb 11 2021, 3:07 PM

Nine-year-old non-actionable ticket that has been stalled for 2.5 yeaars. Feel free to reopen if a specific change is being requested, but right now there's nothing to do.

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