----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dunbar" hippytrail@gmail.com
On 13 May 2011 14:34, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
It would be possible to code around this, so that the redirects would be simulated if they don't exist, but it hasn't happened. In practice, people like me like to type a title in all lower case, and so we have redirects to make it work.
Indeed on the English Wiktionary we do have some JavaScript which runs when on a page which would be a redlink. It checks all casing combinations of: all lowercase, all uppercase, first letter uppercase and the rest lowercase. If one of those exists it automatically redirects after a couple of seconds.
With the different nature of Wikipedia titles you would probably want to check sentence case and title case but would still miss quite a few where only proper nouns within the title are capitalized.
And some people would probably hate such a feature too (-:
Repeat after me: "Not all Mediawikiae are Wikipedia; Wikipedia is merely *the most important* customer of the project, not the only one". No, it would *not* be good to make the base package page-title-case-folding.
Cheers, -- jra