I still don't think page titles should be case sensitive. Last time I asked how useful this really was, back in 2005 or so, I got a tersely-worded response that we need it to disambiguate certain pages. OK, but how many cases does that actually apply to? I would think that the increased usability from removing case sensitivity would far outweigh the benefit of natural disambiguation that only applies to a tiny minority of pages, and which could easily be replaced with disambiguation pages.
2011/5/12 Carl (CBM) <[email protected]> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > They're not the same page. Wikipedia page titles are case sensitive -- > except > > that the first character is forced to upper case by the engine. > > > > Does that search not return both? Why would we have both? > > Like you said, the system is case sensitive. These redirects are > created because the software doesn't handle case changes correctly > otherwise. For example the following link leads to a "no such page" > error because the appropriate redirect does not exist: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_heights,_Michigan . > > It would be possible to code around this, so that the redirects would > be simulated if they don't exist, but it hasn't happened. In > practice, people like me like to type a title in all lower case, and > so we have redirects to make it work. > > - Carl > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
