[Mediawiki-l] Template title case-sensitivity: bug or feature?

Jeff Lane jeffl at valvesoftware.com
Wed Jan 10 02:09:04 UTC 2007



Jeff Lane wrote:
> 
> My first question, is this a bug or a feature? You can't safely have
> Template:NavBar and Template:Navbar in the same wiki database anyway,
> correct?
> 

Hmmm, this does appear to be a bug, or at perhaps a configuration option
that I could not find the documentation for. According to Help:Template on
Meta:



> As usual the template name is case sensitive except (on most projects) for
> the first letter, and a blank space is equivalent with an underscore (as
> opposed to parameter names, see below: they are case-sensitive, even with
> respect to the first letter, and spaces are distinguished from
> underscores).
> 

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template

The Help:Templates article on mediawiki.org makes no mention either way.
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