"{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{NAMESPACE}}:|}}{{lcfirst:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}"
is an excellent example of the good {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} can do, "PhpBB"
becomes "phpBB".
-Timothy
On Dec 19, 2007 10:45 PM, DanTMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I believe the thing you are looking for is {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}, and it
> shout be enabled by default and working on Wikia.
> At least it was when I tested it on the http://vandal.wikia.com test
> wiki before it was deleted.
> However it appears to be disabled on CommunityTest (Perhaps the Techs
> need to re-enable this in GlobalSettings.php, it is not a bad feature
> like it used to be.
>
> For a breakdown of what it does. Quite simply it allows one to change
> the title displayed for the page (Without any funky JS, or CSS which
> works quite badly in either case).
> The feature has been improved and fixed up in MediaWiki 1.12 and is now
> enabled by default because the devs now consider it to be a complete and
> stable feature.
> The current version in MW1.12 doesn't suffer the issues that are part of
> the previous releases of MW.
> There should be no issues with it working strangely or not working at
> times, in the way I believe it used to be unstable.
> And it now only works if the title normalizes back, so it's no longer a
> dangerous feature in that way.
> So, you can't change [[FooBar]] into [[Someothertitle]] like you used
> to. (Which was an issue with the previous versions)
>
> But as for what it's purpose is, it solves an age old MW issue with the
> way MW handles first-letter case, and underscores primarily.
> It allows for a page like [[ITunes]] to use {{DISPLAYTITLE:iTunes}} to
> make it so that the title displays as [[iTunes]]. And because that
> normalizes back, it can still be used as a valid link.
> Another example that should work, is there is an Animanga series that is
> called "_Summer", and yes, the underscore at the start of the name is
> part of it, which brings the issue that the title is normalized to
> "Summer". So {{DISPLAYTITLE:_Summer}} nicely should make the title then
> display "_Summer" instead of "Summer".
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes for an example of it used on
> Wikipedia.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
> -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
> -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
> -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
>
> Angela wrote:
>
> > On Dec 20, 2007 1:55 PM, Timothy J. Crowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> tech.wikia.com was upgraded, but {{DISPLAYVIEW:}} seems to be
> >> disabled. Isn't it enabled by default?
> >>
> >
> > Do you have a link explaining what that is or where it exists? There's
> > no mention of it on mediawiki.org and adding that to a page on the
> > English Wikipedia doesn't do anything.
> >
> > http://decenturl.com/mediawiki/search-for-displayview
> >
> > Angela
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