https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22211
Summary: incorrect capitalisation of hyphenated page titles
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
I'm filing this bug because there seems to be some inconsistency in article
capitalisation on, at least, wikipedia. I don't know who controls this, so the
component's "general/unknown". No doubt devs who work on the wikimedia software
will find a better category.
Two cases:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutinus_elegans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Japonic
both these articles resolve whether their first character is a capital or
lowercase. I imagine there's a rewrite rule in place to enforce a Capital (for
locales that have capital letters).
However, navigating to "Mutinus Elegans" or "Proto-japonica" fails, even though
the capitalisation of a page should be irrelevant in terms of the article it
points to. "Mutinus Elegans", "mutinus elegans" and "MuTiNuS eLeGaNs" all refer
to the same thing, and so should refer to the same page.
Similary, "proto-japonic", "Proto-Japonic" and "proto-Japonic" all refer the to
the same thing.
Currently, navigating to either "-/wiki/Mutinus_Elegans" and
"-/wiki/Proto-japonic" gives a "Wikipedia does not have an article with this
exact name" notice, which is true, and irrelevant, as Wikipedia does have
articles that resolve to identical if a case-cast (be it upper case or lower
case) comparison is made. Since capitalisation is irrelevant to the identity of
a subject, a retrieval check should never be on what the URI contains as page
title string, but on a uniform case representation of that string.
so the bug, concisely: I suspect articles are resolved based on case sensitive
string matching, which should in fact be case insensitive matching (and
matching ONLY, the actual served link should of course obey the URI case
rules).
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