I can't reproduce what you're seeing.

Can you provide some URLs or more detail? Are you talking about the English Wikipedia located at http://en.wikipedia.org/?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wayne_TinCaps exists and it displays the page without going through a redirect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fort_wayne_tincaps redirects to http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_wayne_tincaps because historically all page names are required to start with a more restricted set of characters that includes capital letters but not lowercase letters. Modern MediaWiki optionally allows for lowercase initial characters for page names (AIUI) but this is not enabled for enwiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_wayne_tincaps doesn't exist (and never has)

On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Bobby S wrote:

Here is an example:

Fort Wayne TinCaps

If you type "fort wayne tincaps" in to Wikipedia you will get to "Fort Wayne TinCaps" without having to set up a redirect.

However, with a typical Mediawiki installation you have to set up those redirects if there is either different capitalization within a word or at the beginning of one word but not the other.