On 11-05-13 12:42 AM, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> On 13 May 2011 17:31, M. Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
> There has been talk from time to time over the years to add full "case
> folding" whereby page titles preserve a certain case of each letter
> but ignore such info for internal operations. A lot like the
> filesystem on Microsoft Windows. It would be a third setup option in
> MediaWiki alongside "case-sensitive" and "first-letter". But there's
> never been enough interest and it's never been important enough and no
> developer has ever stepped up. It would take a bit of work to
> implement.
>
> Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)[...]
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/titlerewrite/phase3/

Never finished it... but this topic is why I got commit access in the
first place.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]


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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]


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