https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50452

--- Comment #9 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Until that happens I think we should preserve the case of the input, as even
> if that isn't what people want it is easily possible to change and pretty
> intuitive how to do it - ie, type "foo" get "[[foo]]" but wanted "[[Foo]]",
> all you need to do is type "Foo" instead. The current behaviour means you get
> "[[Foo]]" regardless of what you want or do.

Possible, but a bit messy when writing certain articles like BLPs where most
link targets will be proper nouns.

> The only other thing I can think of is for VE to read and respect things like
> {{lowercase title}}. Once it does that then it should also respect things
> like {{correct title}} for a default display text, and we should probably
> create a {{Proper noun title}} for titles that should always be capitalised by
> default.
>
> Or rather than using templates we could move the title information into page
> metadata. I have no idea whether any of this is practical, but if it is I
> guess it would be better as one or maybe two separate bugs.

Yes, certainly for this to be used in VisualEditor it would need to be a proper
feature and not one hacked into a template; I think creating a bug for
MediaWiki having page-level meta-data about the correct display of a page's
title would be great, yes.

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