Last modified: 2008-12-30 02:27:06 UTC
Some pages, e.g. pH, eBay, have titles that are rendered wrongly by the software because the first letter shouldn't be capitalised, or are at a different place because of the limitations of the url, e.g. C++. This could be solved by adding to the page: [[Title:eBay]] [[Title:C++]] This could be extended to including italicisation for books, films, bands, etc e.g. [[Title:''The Beatles'']] The only problem I can think of with this is the C++ page which needs to be linked to with [[C Plus Plus|C++]] and that this would be less obvious if this was implemented.
The ability to format differently e.g. for ships [[Title:HMS ''Invincible'' (R05)]] would be good.
From a (somewhat off-topic) comment I made on bug 337: "I wonder if a mechanism to display the page's title (in the HTML output) as something different from its name (in the database) could be created, which showed the real name (as needed for linking to the article) underneath: <h1>C#</h1> <p><small>[Article title: C_sharp]</small></p> Except I'm not sure how to label the second line so that it would make sense to inexperienced users. My thought is that this could be a magic word at the beginning of the article: '#TITLE C#'; similarly, one could use '#TITLE h2g2' to display the lower-case leading letter on a wiki where this was otherwise not possible." And Alan Barrett's reply: "Perhaps "To link to this article, use [[C sharp]]." Put it as close to the H1 heading as possible, and use a stylesheet to hide it in print media. See [[:en:Template:Wrongtitle]] and [[:en:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)]] (and the corresponding talk pages) for relevant discussion."
I see somebody has created a patch - see bug 2118 - for an "__LCFIRST__" magic word which covers the easy cases of titles with all lower-case on an otherwise automatically upper-casing wiki. The simplifying point being that these titles can be linked to in either way anyway, so it is a purely presentational matter.
Well I've seen Wiktionary's gone over lower case, is it possible for the developers to manually move mis- capitalised titles over? This would deal with most of them. See bug 2713 where I've explained this a bit more detail.
Please take a look at bug 337 comment 22. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Please take a look at bug 2118 comment 15. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
See Bug 2118 comment #24 for a JavaScript workaround for this issue.
*** Bug 7237 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The title itself can now be overridden using DISPLAYTITLE, where the desired title normalises to the same title as the page being rendered. I'm not sure whether we want to be able to override title formatting, as well, although it's not going to affect linking...
Would probably be useful for, e.g., chemical formulas, equations, etc. Don't see why not.
I'd like to have the option of using display titles that don't normalize. We had some nice features worked out with templates that would append things like "Stub", "Draft", "Final" to the display title. We also had a template for user pages to change the display title from something like "user:Doe, John" to simply "John Doe". The subtext "link to this article as..." was sufficient for identifying the real title. I can see why you might not want this on a public wiki, but I think it has use in private wikis. How about a configuration setting $wgEnableScaryDisplayTitle to enable display titles that don't normalize?
This feature has been available for a while now via the DISPLAYTITLE magic word, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Miscellany I'm closing this bug as FIXED.
It may be proper to close this "bug" since the software is behaving as intended, but I'm going to open it one more time because it isn't behaving as several of the comments would like. The desired functionality is to allow display titles that don't normalize. So yes, "iPod" and "eBay" are fine for "IPod" and "EBay", but "C++" isn't fine for "C plus plus". A few versions ago, the displytitle magic word did allow non-normalizing display titles. I think the desire is to get back to that (or at least have the option).
There is a reason the javascript code to change the title is still used on en.wikipedia. sub/superscript (very common in astronomy and chemistry topics) and C++ etc. should really be handled some way in the core. As a matter of fact, brion even suggested it should be like that: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk%3ACommon.js&diff=214858584&oldid=214794296
Duping this to bug 12998 which has some active patch work in development. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12998 ***
