I've wondered about the requirement for uppercase for both page titles and usernames. The former can get overridden with
$wgCapitalLinks =false;
which is important for genetics, where "lacZ" and "LacZ" are not the same thing and "GAL4" and "gal4" are a different pair of things (I didn't make this rule, so don't blame me!).
I also find that when recruiting people who've been using computers a lot they reflexively type all lowercase into the Create and account box. So...what's the reasoning behind the uppercase first letter rule? It seems more like something that Microsoft word would do...perhaps because I'm often annoyed at Word for doing the same thing. ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054
On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:22 AM, Rob Church wrote:
On 07/03/07, Thomas Fogh thomas_fogh@hotmail.com wrote:
Can somehow provide me with a list of all the functions that needs to be changed to fully implement my new rules?
Be prepared to alter a lot of the code; MediaWiki requires all usernames to be valid page titles, and enforces some assumptions made on those throughout the codebase.
Rob Church
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