Klaus-Eduard Runnel wrote:
Maybe someone can think of a way to create automatic links to pages with titles differing just by the case of the first letter? E.g. it would be helpful to have link to "aa" from the article titled "Aa". I have had no success trying to accomplish something like that using the available means of mediawiki. That's by the way one of the reasons why not-yet-so-big Estonian wiktionary has not switched over to case-sensitivite first letters yet.
There could be use for a magic word similar to PAGENAMEE which would return the page title with spaces substituted by '+' characters.
Klaus
Hoi, This would be a bad idea. It may help some wiktionaries but it would certainly break others. There is a big difference between the implementation of the English wiktionary who for whatever reason stayed overly long with capitalised articles and wiktionaries like the Dutch, the Italian and may others who changed the capitalisation at the first opportunity. The difference can be found in things like the English wiktionary seems to cherish the redirect pages while all redirect pages on the Dutch and Italian .. and others are always deleted. The reason for this is that like in a paper dictionaray we only want correct spellings and an incorrect spelling should result in a "not found" message.
Ultimate Wiktionary is a project that intends to merge wiktionaries and its communities and build additional functionality and community. However, until individual wiktionaries start to merge into it, you cannot assume functionality and certainly automatic functionality is possible that is incompatible with other wiktionaries. It is possible to create the Ultimate Wiktionary because from a technical point of view, it makes a clean break with the existing wiktionaries. The result will be a single project and as a consequence it will be possible to change its functionality when the need arises.
One thing you have to consider with regard to the implementation of case sensitivity is, that the longer you wait the more work there is to make the necessary changes.
Thanks, GerardM