Last modified: 2012-08-05 21:27:47 UTC
In the Search box on the left-hand column, I get a drop-down listing pages that begin with what I've typed. The suggestions have the first letter capitalized, per standard wikipedia technical standard that all article titles begin with a capital letter. The requirement appears to apply to the first *character* of the title, not the first *letter* (if there are preceding numbers or other characters). However, the dropdown suggestion list capitalizes the first letter, whatever position in the title it is. That's confusing, as there can be pages that differ solely by capitalization at that position: the dropdown lists two of the same, no clue which is which. For example, en.wp has [[1,4-dichlorobenzene]] and [[1,4-Dichlorobenzene]] (one a redirect to the other for obvious sanity reasons!). If I type "1,4-dichl" in the search-box, the drop-down lists "1,4-Dichlorobenzene" and "1,4-Dichlorobenzene" (both of which take me to the capital-D page). I so the bug is that the autocapitalizer thingy converts "1,4-dichlorobenzene" to "1,4-Dichlorobenzene" when setting up the list of choices even though that "d" is not the first character.
This is not a bug. The search suggestions box is smarter than you think: it does case-insensitive matching (so "1,4-dichl" matches both titles) and doesn't list redirect (so [[1,4-dichlorobenzene]], which redirects to [[1,4-Dichlorobenzene]], isn't listed).
Then the bug is that it lists the same result twice ("doesn't list redirect" is only half-true). I'm temporarily setting [[1,4-dichlorobenzene]] as a soft redirect to see how it behaves, so will check back later to see how that behaves.
Alright, it's been 10 hours, so I assume any caching or reindexing has happened. With [[1,4-dichlorobenzene]] not a #REDIRECT, the suggestions list still lists two entries for "1,4-Dichlorobenzene", both of which go to the capital-D page.
(In reply to comment #3) > Alright, it's been 10 hours, so I assume any caching or reindexing has > happened. With [[1,4-dichlorobenzene]] not a #REDIRECT, the suggestions list > still lists two entries for "1,4-Dichlorobenzene", both of which go to the > capital-D page. > Still, it's probably got to do with the script resolving redirects and not filtering for duplicates. As far as the software is concerned, 'd' is not the first letter of [[1,4-dichlorobenzene]] ('1' is), so it would never capitalize it for that reason.
Not a bug.
