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] -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
