----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Dunbar" <[email protected]>
> On 13 May 2011 14:34, Carl (CBM) <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 (-: Repeat after me: "Not all Mediawikiae are Wikipedia; Wikipedia is merely *the most important* customer of the project, not the only one". No, it would *not* be good to make the base package page-title-case-folding. 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
