On Sun, 25 May 2003, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 12:20:12AM +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
"Lee Daniel Crocker" lee@piclab.com wrote in message news:20030523184628.GA22556@piclab.com...
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Anyone have other ideas/suggestions?
Here's one that's almost unrelated, but your post has reminded me of it. We've had a number of requests for titles with an initial lowercase letter. I would like to see a checkbox next to "Watch this article" on the edit page, labelled "Title starts with lowercase letter". Clicking on "save" with this checked would set a flag in the cur table, instructing getPrefixedText() to set the initial letter to lowercase. So [[IMac]] and [[iMac]] still go to the same place, but when the software has to display the title, it comes out as [[iMac]].
Alternately you could just have a link in the sidebar, like for page protection -- but please make sure the change is registered in RC.
IMHO there is no sense to have 2 articles that differ only by capitalization - there should be some "canonical" form, but all links, no matter what capitalization they have, should go to the same article.
That's exactly what Tim is proposing - the only change is that the canonical form can be decided for each word separately rather than being always said at 'with capital'.
Andre Engels