Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:32:54 UTC
At the mentioned URL, http://codex.wordpress.org, when linking to another page on the wiki, the exact same capitalization as the title of the page needs to be used currently. URLs with differring cases work just fine when entered into the address bar of the browser (and when the page is linked-to from external websites. This causes lots of maintenance problems, and makes it difficult to edit/create content, since one always has to be extremely careful about the case when linking to a page. Symptoms with an example: If there exists a page titled "The Loop" on the wiki, and someone links to that page using [[The Loop]] or [[The_Loop]], the link works fine. However, if someone links to that page using [[the loop]], [[the_loop]], [[The loop]], [[The_loop]], [[the Loop]] or [[the_Loop]] the link shows up in the color red upon saving, and links to the "edit page" (..index.php?title=the_loop&action=edit for example). This problem exists only with incorrectly capitalized links entered by editors. On Special: pages, and "what links here" pages, for example, incorrectly capitalized links work just fine. The page http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH/Wiki_Tips_and_Tricks contains a list showing intra-wiki links that work and that do not, for your reference. Thank you.
A copy of the page is at [[Wikipedia:User:Astronouth7303/Wiki Tips and Tricks]]
Changing URL to exact page where problem is demonstrated.
Looks like you have $wgCapitalLinks = false set in LocalSettings. This forces titles to complete case-sensitivity, so the wiki is working exactly as configured. (Normally the first letter is forced to uppercase to provide a limited sort of case insensitivity in links, so [[The Loop]] and [[the Loop]] normally both link to "The Loop".) As for browser URL bars, note that some browsers have case-insensitive matching of previously visited URLs in their typing autocompletion. (This is a HUGE pain in the butt when you really need to visit URLs that differ by case!) If you typed it fresh on a browser that hadn't previously visited the page, you would get no such match. Note that namespace names are matched case insensitively; they are stored symbolically in the database, not as text, so [[special:Allpages]] will work (but [[special:allpages]] does not -- the title portion is not folded to the standard 'Allpages' and the match fails.) See bug 453 for the (not yet dealt with) issue of providing decent case-insensitive, case-preserving semantics for page titles.
