On 5/13/2011 3:31 AM, M. Williamson 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.
>
>
Last time I looked there were about 10,000 pairs of pages in
Wikipedia where there were two different pages with names that differ
only by case. One example is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Instruction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_instruction
This is a particularly odd example because the two kinds of "direct
instruction" are two concepts that are very close but not the same.
Some people might argue for the merging of the two cases.
You can find plenty of other types too, for instance, an all-caps
acronym vs. an ordinary word.
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