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.
2011/5/12 Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Jay Ashworth
<jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
They're not the same page. Wikipedia page
titles are case sensitive --
except
that the first character is forced to upper case
by the engine.
Does that search not return both? Why would we have both?
Like you said, the system is case sensitive. These redirects are
created because the software doesn't handle case changes correctly
otherwise. For example the following link leads to a "no such page"
error because the appropriate redirect does not exist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_heights,_Michigan .
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.
- Carl
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