WikiStyleGuide

[Nicolas Dumazet]

2010/10/14 Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>:
> On 14.10.2010 03:06, Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
>> 2010/10/14 Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>:
>>> I'd propose to use Wikipedia page and section capitalization as well (so
>>> we can reuse habits :).
>>
>> Personally, I do not care. Wikipedia has a lot of issues, too, and
>> nothing forces us to import those habits.
>
> But why forcing a *different* standard on users? Below you even say you
> don't care (which puzzles me why you post on this thread, but well...).
>
> There are a lot of people which are used to Wikipedia's style. It *is*
> already a standard elsewhere - like it or not.

I used to be an admin/sysop on the French Wikipedia, I very well know
the style guidelines and various rules overthere. I also know that the
state of things is just the result of time-consuming and slow,
pointless discussions: lot of "experts" trying to explain to others
which convention is the best.
In reality "style" is very abstract and human mind is flexible. I
contribute every day to three different projects, all of three have
different Python coding styles: I'm still alive.

My point is just to note that following Wikipedia style just because
it's Wikipedia is not a good reason. We should use whichever style is
best for us.

To me, writing a style guideline does not sound like a funny task. I
was just glad and grateful that someone actually took the time to
write something.
I am sorry, maybe it's me, my English and my jetlag, but I felt that
complaining over such style detail was unnecessarily pointy. Feel free
to ignore me, enforcing [whichever] style sounds OK to me, let's all
be happy.

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Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ