On 13 May 2011 17:31, M. Williamson
<node.ue(a)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)[...]
Never finished it... but this topic is why I got commit access in the
first place.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [