Mark Williamson wrote:
...speaking of which, capitalisation is a problem on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_languages will give you a page different from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Languages or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_Of_languages or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIST_OF_LANGUAGES
The arguement against removing capitalisation sensitivity is in my opinion a very weak one: the number of cases for which it serves as a natural disambiguation is very very small, and even in those cases somebody might use capitals or not use capitals and inadvertently end up at the wrong article.
I think we need to get rid of case sensitivity once and for all.
The only argument against it is that it will require some effort to implement and work into the existing system, and there are plenty of bigger priorities.
We'll be in a better position to do this after the MediaWiki 1.5 release; the restructured tables will be lighter and easier to change.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)