[Mediawiki-l] case insensitive links

[Muzaffer Ozakca]

I agree with Solo. I can help to make necessary changes. It doesn't really
make sense to have two articles with different letter cases when they mean
the same thing. I think this should be included in the newer versions of
Mediawiki, too.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
> bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of solo turn
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:40 PM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] case insensitive links
> 
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:52:25 -0500, Jamie Bliss <astronouth7303 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The solution to this is to only use lowercase letters except in proper
> names.
> 
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:39:11 -0500, Rick DeNatale
> > <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Actually what I'd love to see is a way to automatically lower case a
> reference.
> > >
> > > I don't know how may times I've typed something like.
> > >
> > > The [[Farbulator Overflow Valve|farbulator overflow valve]] was
> > > mounted on the [[Framis Bulkhead|framis bulkhead]]
> 
> if there are many users with different spelling behaviour it looks
> more like a "workaround" than a "solution" ;) if you are allowed to
> type it wrong, users will type it wrong.
> 
> an option to ignore case would solve our problems. in which place/file
> would it fit best?
> 
> -solo.