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[[Wikimedia:Wikipedia-ios-alert-no-internet/en]] Internet should be capitalized in alert localization string
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I'm assuming from the description that this is related to the iOS app, so this may interest @JMinor. This appears to be asking for a capitalisation fix in the message title, so seems incredibly low priority to me since it won't affect what users see at all.

@Macofe: I do not see any "i18n issue" here. If you think there is a "i18n issue", please explain why and how this affects i18n. Currently I only see a potential typo.

JMinor renamed this task from [[Wikimedia:Wikipedia-ios-alert-no-internet/en]] i18n issue to [[Wikimedia:Wikipedia-ios-alert-no-internet/en]] Internet should be capitalized in alert localization string.Dec 24 2015, 3:15 AM
JMinor removed a project: I18n.

Yeah, this is just a single character change in our localization file, I've removed l18n.

On a personal side note:

IMO this should not be capitalized. In this context ("internet connection") Internet is an adjective, not a proper noun. Per the Wikipedia article on this subject:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_%22Internet%22
there is widespread disagreement about Internet vs. internet, and many major news outlets use internet. It is like television or radio.

My editorializing aside, though, the app should follow Wikipedia convention (capitalized Internet). so I will leave this open for the team to fix.

This would be an i18n matter if it produced an inconsistency, as that would confuse translators: however, we don't have a MediaWiki convention on the matter. Additionally, people above are not convinced; thanks for raising the matter but I think it's best to close this.

Nemo_bis edited projects, added: I18n; removed: Google-Code-In-2015.

@Macofe: I do not see any "i18n issue" here. If you think there is a "i18n issue", please explain why and how this affects i18n. Currently I only see a potential typo.

"i18n issue" is in the title by default when comng from translatewiki's translation interface.