https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20190
Summary: Suggestions/autocomplete in search box mis-capitalizes
first letter
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: dma...@netspace.org
In the Search box on the left-hand column, I get a drop-down listing pages that
begin with what I've typed. The suggestions have the first letter capitalized,
per standard wikipedia technical standard that all article titles begin with a
capital letter. The requirement appears to apply to the first *character* of
the title, not the first *letter* (if there are preceding numbers or other
characters). However, the dropdown suggestion list capitalizes the first
letter, whatever position in the title it is. That's confusing, as there can be
pages that differ solely by capitalization at that position: the dropdown lists
two of the same, no clue which is which.
For example, en.wp has [[1,4-dichlorobenzene]] and [[1,4-Dichlorobenzene]] (one
a redirect to the other for obvious sanity reasons!). If I type "1,4-dichl" in
the search-box, the drop-down lists "1,4-Dichlorobenzene" and
"1,4-Dichlorobenzene" (both of which take me to the capital-D page). I so the
bug is that the autocapitalizer thingy converts "1,4-dichlorobenzene" to
"1,4-Dichlorobenzene" when setting up the list of choices even though that "d"
is not the first character.
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