https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27963

--- Comment #3 from WBTtheFROG <[email protected]> 2011-03-09 
20:50:39 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> This would lead to a number of unobvious breakages. For example, if we remove 
> a
> namespace from $wgNamespacesWithSubpages - what will happen to: a) page 
> titles,
> b) links to subpages?

I'm not sure that fixing this bug would actually make a difference in the
answer to these questions.  Removing the subpage feature of a namespace would
have the same effect whether the first letter was case-sensitive or
case-insensitive.  What happens now?  There might possibly be a few letters of
case sensitivity added in the event that the subpage feature is removed,
thereby breaking a few links, although a little redirect maker script (using
What Links Here) could address that if needed. 

Please post more of those possible "unobvious breakages" that you noted - as
many of them as you can think of.

(In reply to comment #2)
> It should be all (case insensitive) or nothing.
The documentation, including what's shown on the nonexistent page message,
states that the first letter is case insensitive, and that's what I think most
users expect.  There are reasons for that decision, which you can probably find
in the discussion where it was set (although I don't personally know where that
is).  If you want to change that policy, it's a bigger issue probably out of
scope of this bug.  I'm just looking for consistent behavior.  The first
character after the slash should be case-insensitive.  I would not oppose
making the whole string case-insensitive, but I think others would.

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