https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27963
--- Comment #5 from WBTtheFROG <[email protected]> 2011-03-10 05:02:30 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) >Titles _are_ case sensitive except for the first letter. The fact that the >content is at "/A" but not at "/a" fairly clearly demonstrates this. When my base is the [[Talk:Washington, D.C.]] page and I go for a page labeled "archive 1," to me "archive 1" is the name of the page and all the stuff before that are qualifiers that help locate it: "Washingon, D. C." as much as "Talk" as much as "en" as much as "Wikipedia." To me, a "/doc" page is about doc (which it is), and all the qualifiers before that are just context - necessary, but not part of what I intuitively think of as the title for what I'm reading. As an analogy, when browsing through a file directory structure, it's the string after the last slash (the local/currently viewing) directory name that serves as the title of the current directory. Whether my filesystem is case sensitive or not or all-but-first-letter, I expect it to be consistent no matter how deep I go in the directory structure, and I always think of the current folder title (without the parent hierarchy) as the title of what I'm looking at. > If you would like to change the English Wikipedia's text, you can do > so at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Noarticletext>. Thanks for the link. Changing the documentation is a second preference to changing the actual software behavior, but it's good to have that on hand. > Right. Page titles are case sensitive except for the first letter on the > English Wikipedia, as established. This behavior should apply consistently to subpages just as well as non-subpages. Subpages are pages too. > The case of the first letter in links is irrelevant (except for display > purposes), which is what the message at the English Wikipedia tries to convey. The first letter in subpage links IS relevant, though. That's what the bug is about. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
