Template title case-sensitivity: bug or feature?

List overview All Threads
Download

newer

older

MediaWiki 1.9.0rc1 available for...

Broken Links Report

Jeff Lane

10 Jan 2007 10 Jan '07

12:59 a.m.

We're working on upgrading our 1.4.12 wiki to 1.9.0. One thing I discovered is that template usages in 1.8.2 and 1.9.0 now require correctly matching title case. This was not the case in 1.4.12. i.e. For Template:NavBar, pages that worked previously with {{Navbar}} in the wikitext are now broken links. Switching it to {{NavBar}} fixes the inclusion. My first question, is this a bug or a feature? You can't safely have Template:NavBar and Template:Navbar in the same wiki database anyway, correct? Unfortunately we now have a large number (over 1,000) of broken template links in our site if we upgrade. One possible solution is to use redirects from the improperly capitalized templates to the correct ones, which could probably be done mostly with a XML import. Any issues with that solution? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Template-title-case-sensitivity%3A-bug-or-feature--tf… Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Show replies by thread

Brion Vibber

10 Jan 10 Jan

1:59 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Template title case-sensitivity: bug or feature?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Lane wrote:

...

We're working on upgrading our 1.4.12 wiki to 1.9.0. One thing I discovered is that template usages in 1.8.2 and 1.9.0 now require correctly matching title case. This was not the case in 1.4.12.

I'm quite sure this has *always* been the case. MediaWiki doesn't have any sort of case-insensitive title matching (except for the first letter when set to capitalize titles, as default).

...

i.e. For Template:NavBar, pages that worked previously with {{Navbar}} in the wikitext are now broken links. Switching it to {{NavBar}} fixes the inclusion. My first question, is this a bug or a feature? You can't safely have Template:NavBar and Template:Navbar in the same wiki database anyway, correct?

Yes, you may have Template:NavBar and Template:Navbar. Some day we may have full case-insensitivity but we never have yet.

...

Unfortunately we now have a large number (over 1,000) of broken template links in our site if we upgrade. One possible solution is to use redirects from the improperly capitalized templates to the correct ones, which could probably be done mostly with a XML import. Any issues with that solution?

Redirects are the only way to have accomplished this in the first place, as far as I know. - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

...PGP SIGNATURE...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpEiMwRnhpk1wk44RAshnAKDVoaNVXRhyqO6N1K54RUMHkyDWNQCffTZI MS2kP6tW4bfRRb5DdjSniR8= =b3eZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Jan

2:06 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Template title case-sensitivity: bug or feature?

Yes, in MW all articles are case-sensitive (afaik). Only the capitals, the first letter in an article-name, are NOT case-sensitive (if you are using the default-settings). So, make sure to use correct case-sensitivity in all Links (pages in every namespace, incl. main: and template:). Regards, Jan Jeff Lane schrieb:

...

from the improperly capitalized templates to the correct ones, which could

probably be done mostly with a XML import. Any issues with that solution?

Jeff Lane

2:09 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Template title case-sensitivity: bug or feature?

Jeff Lane wrote:

...

My first question, is this a bug or a feature? You can't safely have Template:NavBar and Template:Navbar in the same wiki database anyway, correct?

Hmmm, this does appear to be a bug, or at perhaps a configuration option that I could not find the documentation for. According to Help:Template on Meta:

...

As usual the template name is case sensitive except (on most projects) for the first letter, and a blank space is equivalent with an underscore (as opposed to parameter names, see below: they are case-sensitive, even with respect to the first letter, and spaces are distinguished from underscores).

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template The Help:Templates article on mediawiki.org makes no mention either way. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Template-title-case-sensitivity%3A-bug-or-feature--tf… Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Jeff Lane

2:32 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Template title case-sensitivity: bug or feature?

...

One thing I discovered is that template usages in 1.8.2 and

1.9.0 now

require correctly matching title case. This was not the

case in 1.4.12. I'm quite sure this has *always* been the case. MediaWiki doesn't have any sort of case-insensitive title matching (except for the first letter when set to capitalize titles, as default).

Hmm, this is very odd. This template: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Template:KV_Targetname is used as {{kv_targetname}} On this page: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Path_corner (under the "Keyvalues" section). And it works. We have a large number of other links on the server that are also this way. On the 1.9 test server, the above link is broken until I switch it to {{KV Targetname}}. Production server: MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4.12 PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10-18 (apache) MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.24_Debian-10sarge2-log And (I believe) Apache 1.333. I can't check easily at the moment.

6341

days inactive

6341

days old

mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Manage subscription

4 comments

3 participants

tags (0)

participants (3)

Brion Vibber
Jan
Jeff Lane