········· > 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.) > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments