[Mediawiki-l] Disable auto-capitalization for page titles

[Toshi Esumi]

> You can disable the forced capitalization with $wgCapitalLinks:
> 
>   $wgCapitalLinks = false;
> 
> Docs for this & links to some related settings are available on
> mediawiki.org wiki:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$wgCapitalLinks
> 
> Beware though that this will make the first letter of a title
> case-sensitive in all page links and URLs: for instance '[[foo]]' will
> no longer link to the page 'Foo', and '[[Foo]]' will not link to the
> page 'foo', unless redirects are put in place. Migrating an existing
> site can be tricky!
> 
> 
> You can also use the 'DISPLAYTITLE' built-in parser function to adjust
> the displayed title to initial lowercase without altering other
> behavior on the site. There's a template on English Wikipedia which
> conveniently wraps it, which you might copy (requires ParserFunctions
> extension to be installed):
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lowercase_title
> 
> -- brion
> 
> 
Thank you for good information, Brion.
I see some pros & cons for both options. I'll test them out in a test
wiki environment and make a decision.

Toshi