Re: Proposal: making [[article]] and [[Article]] equivalent on the wiki

[Philipp Gesang <gesang@stud.uni-heidelberg.de>]

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···<date: 2012-09-19, Wednesday>···<from: Sietse Brouwer>···

> Hello, all,
> 
> The wiki currently has $wgCapitalLinks = false; meaning that if one
> wishes to link to e.g. [[Columns]] inside a sentence one must write
> "See the [[Columns|columns]] article." And if one links to another
> article, one must remember whether its title is lowercase, Titlecase,
> or if it doesn't matter because a redirect exists.
> 
> Proposal:
> I propose we set
> $wgCapitalLinks = true;
> $wgCapitalLinkOverrides[ NS_FILE ] = false;

+1, great idea!

Thanks
Philipp


> This will make writing a link as [[Article]] or [[article]] both
> correct, but retain case sensitivity in the rest of the article title.
> In the file namespace, however, case sensitivity will be retained for
> the entire name, so that people won't have to download e.g.
> "T-lilypond.tex".
> 
> Motivation below. Comments, agreement, disagreement welcome.
> Cheers,
> Sietse
> 
> Motivation:
> Redirects can (and do) solve this, and so can changing the link, but
> that is busywork that nobody should have to do.
> Setting $wgCapitalLinks = true is a robust solution. Article titles
> will remain case-sensitive, except for the first letter, meaning
> 
> * no more trying to remember whether an article is located at
> [[lowercase]] or at [[Titlecase]]
> * no more creating redirects from [[lowercase]] to [[Titlecase]] or vice versa
> * you can always use the simplest wikilink, because [[Columns]] and
> [[columns]] both work correctly.
> * article titles will consistently be displayed in Titlecase
> * for titles that should start in lowercase, such as [[texexec]] or
> [[first-setup]], we'll need to add e.g. {{DISPLAYTITLE:texexec}}.
> 
> For the file namespace, it is preferable that case-sensitivity remains
> on, especially for .tex and .zip files such as
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:T-lilypond.tex
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=&namespace=6
> (The large amount of Titlecased filenames in that list is because in
> the early days of this wiki, $wgCapitalLinks was also true
> everywhere.)
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