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Revision as of 22:01, 3 April 2002 by Brooke Vibber (talk | contribs) (Fun with title case conversion)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)So, capitalization counts in the second word in a Proper name, but not in the f/First. Brilliant. When are you going to wake up and change the software and convention? It's inevitable. Give up please. You're wasting our time.
Give me the user interface source, and database source, and I'll fix this myself.
- Misplaced Pages:PHP script source
- http://www.wikipedia.com/tarballs/ database dump
- Wikitech-L developer mailing list
- Enjoy!
Err, thanks. Damn I hate that. ;-p Now, do I have to deal with LDC's claim that "this has been settled, shut up and love it", or can I really just do this?
- Well, what exactly do you want? For page titles to be completely case-sensitive and case-preserving (ie, you could have separate Foo, foo, FOO, fOO articles)? The annoying thing about that is that you'll break a zillion links -- non-proper nouns are usually linked to in lowercase... except at the beginning of a sentence, of course. And who wants to write something like "] are known in this area."?
- Or, you might want page titles to be case-insensitive, but case-preserving. ie, the actual article might be "foo" or "asteroids", but a link ] or ] will also match the lowercase title. Doable, but again problematic; if the page is first created from an uppercase link, you're stuck with the uppercase title (time to make more redirects!). And if you want to have distinct Foo vs foo pages, how do you distinguish them in links without making the more frequent case of non-proper noun at the beginning of a sentence problematic?
- I'm not aware of any prior discussion of this subject on wikipedia (though it probably exists somewhere), but if someone else does I'd be curious to see just how it was settled previously... Personally, I like the status quo just fine with first-letter capitalization, but if something else can be made to work cleanly and keep everyone happy, I'm open to suggestions. --Brion VIBBER