----- Original Message ----- > From: "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 . Ah; one is a redirect. Sorry; I hadn't actually looked. > 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. I seem to remember having been on the wrong end of a protracted version of that exact argument, a couple years ago on this very mailing list. :-) No, on reflection, it was actually "why aren't redirects handled at HTTP level". Let's not open that one again, though. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
