On 11-05-13 12:42 AM, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
On 13 May 2011 17:31, M. Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I still don't think page titles should be case sensitive. Last time I asked how useful this really was, back in 2005 or so, I got a tersely-worded response that we need it to disambiguate certain pages. OK, but how many cases does that actually apply to? I would think that the increased usability from removing case sensitivity would far outweigh the benefit of natural disambiguation that only applies to a tiny minority of pages, and which could easily be replaced with disambiguation pages.
There has been talk from time to time over the years to add full "case folding" whereby page titles preserve a certain case of each letter but ignore such info for internal operations. A lot like the filesystem on Microsoft Windows. It would be a third setup option in MediaWiki alongside "case-sensitive" and "first-letter". But there's never been enough interest and it's never been important enough and no developer has ever stepped up. It would take a bit of work to implement.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)[...]
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/titlerewrite/phase3/
Never finished it... but this topic is why I got commit access in the first place.
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