[Mediawiki-l] case insensitive Go-ing?

Tor Kinlok tor at superman.ws
Wed Feb 16 18:22:12 UTC 2005


On Feb 16, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Muke Tever wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:57:56 -0500, Tor Kinlok <tor at superman.ws> wrote:
>> So perhaps my original question was mis-worded.  The problem is that I
>> don't want to have to write redirect pages for all of my entries,
>> especially if various users are the ones who are going to be adding
>> them.
>
> You shouldn't have to make a redirect page--if there's _no_ redirect 
> page,
> "go" should send you to the article directly.
>
> _If_ you make a redirect page, "go" will probably find it first.
>
> Is your wiki not behaving this way?

No, it is not.  As an example, I have an article named "Wonder-Man" and 
a "Go" lookup on "wonder-man" won't find it, nor will it return any 
search results at all.  It seems like the hyphen may be an issue here 
too.





More information about the MediaWiki-l mailing list