On 13 May 2011 14:34, Carl (CBM) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Indeed on the English Wiktionary we do have some JavaScript which runs when on a page which would be a redlink. It checks all casing combinations of: all lowercase, all uppercase, first letter uppercase and the rest lowercase. If one of those exists it automatically redirects after a couple of seconds. With the different nature of Wikipedia titles you would probably want to check sentence case and title case but would still miss quite a few where only proper nouns within the title are capitalized. And some people would probably hate such a feature too (-: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) > - 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
