You can disable the forced capitalization with $wgCapitalLinks: $wgCapitalLinks = false; Docs for this & links to some related settings are available on mediawiki.org wiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$wgCapitalLinks Beware though that this will make the first letter of a title case-sensitive in all page links and URLs: for instance '[[foo]]' will no longer link to the page 'Foo', and '[[Foo]]' will not link to the page 'foo', unless redirects are put in place. Migrating an existing site can be tricky! You can also use the 'DISPLAYTITLE' built-in parser function to adjust the displayed title to initial lowercase without altering other behavior on the site. There's a template on English Wikipedia which conveniently wraps it, which you might copy (requires ParserFunctions extension to be installed): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lowercase_title -- brion