----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dunbar"
<hippytrail(a)gmail.com>
On 13 May 2011 14:34, Carl (CBM)
<cbm.wikipedia(a)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
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