Any update on URL case-sensitivity?

For what it's worth: Is it simple to make LocalSettings variable that says something along the lines of:

CaseInsensitiveURLs = disabled # default

If "enabled," it makes someone typing in the URL from some other reference make sure they always hit the wiki page regardless of case...and the URL-to-page-title-page-matching mechanisms essentially uses what is available in the "Go" field right now wrt case-insensitive page discovery.

(I currently co-admin a MW 1.4.0 server...and yes I know we are woefully behind. We are currently in the process of migrating to a set of MW 1.5.x servers.)

For what it's worth, we have converted my entire company over to wiki usage, and many of us type in the URLs by hand to save time having to go to "Go" field and type it in there...and every day I grumble about not having case-insensitive URL matching.

If someone can point me to the best place to change this code to support this, I might try my hand at it myself...if it's not already implemented.

-Matt

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com Tue Sep 20 19:32:28 UTC 2005 Re: [Mediawiki-l] Where can I read about the URL case-sensitivity debate?

Matt England wrote:

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I'm sure this has been debated many times, so I simply ask:

Where's the best place to read about the current state of affairs with respect case sensitivity for MW URLs?

There is no support for case-insensitive titles at this time.

It may be added some day in the future, requiring database changes to move case-normalized titles out into another table and provide proper matching.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)