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

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

Hello,

did someone, by any chance, already make that change?

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
> 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;
> 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".

The setting was changed from true to false in past on purpose. I found
it very annoying that all the words were capitalized, even if there
was no reason to capitalized them. Filenames (like
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cont-tmf.zip,
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/First-setup.sh) are not the only cases.
"write18" is another one etc.

Even if you change that setting, you still have no idea whether a page
is "Font Tools" or "Font tools" or "font tools". You can make a link
to [[font tools]] or [[headers and footers]] inside your sentence, but
that still won't help you to get to
    http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Tools
    http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Headers_and_Footers
and most article names are actually very hard to guess, and in
contrast to wikipedia, the ConTeXt wiki hardly covers any substantial
amount of common words or phrases.

> Motivation below. Comments, agreement, disagreement welcome.

Personally I'm against that change.

> Motivation:
> Redirects can (and do) solve this, and so can changing the link, but
> that is busywork that nobody should have to do.

I agree, but having filenames capitalized is even more silly.

> * article titles will consistently be displayed in Titlecase

That is not always desired.

> * for titles that should start in lowercase, such as [[texexec]] or
> [[first-setup]], we'll need to add e.g. {{DISPLAYTITLE:texexec}}.

That partially compensates, but ...

Mojca

PS: can anyone please explain me what's with
    http://wiki.contextgarden.net/First-setup.sh
it's almost "an infinite chain" of redirects ... The real page,
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/First-setup, is the one that actually
makes least sense to me.
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