Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:38:40 UTC
Version 1.5beta3 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Log works http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:log doesn't work. Seems to be true for all things in Special: namespace.
Well, this is true for all pages in all namespaces, now that the English Wiktionary has been switched over to fully case-sensitive mode - in the same way that "[[log]]" is no longer the same as "[[Log]]", "[[Wiktionary:log]]" is not "[[Wiktionary:Log]]" and "[[Special:log]]" is not "[[Special:Log]]". This is probably a little confusing, and even annoying, though, so perhaps the Special namespace should be an exception in this regard, and ignore the value of $wgCapitalLinks - especially since, unlike every other namespace, no redirects can be made to quickly fix all existing links if a wiki is changed over (as is the case here). On a more blue-sky thought: if the idea of database-driven namespaces (I haven't time to find the reference right now) is taken up in the main code, perhaps $wgCapitalLinks could become a per-namespace setting. For instance, there's probably rarely a reason to distinguish between "Project:foo" and "Project:Foo", even when there is a clear distinction between "Foo" and "foo". But maybe by then someone will have sorted out a better way of dealing with the whole case folding issue anyway.
In phase 2, special page matching was case-insensitive; that got broken in the phase 3 code and nobody ever got around to fixing it. The first letter is automatically capitalized normally so nobody notices that most common case, except where $wgCapitalLinks is off. (Note that namespace names are also case-insensitive matches; it's only in- database titles and usernames which are sensitive.)
Dear friends, Regarding case sensitive topics one coud suggest to handle two namespaces differently: a) no accounts starting with lowercase letters are alloew in {{:ns:user}} as a consequence see bug 3904: disallow user pages and user_talk pages starting with lower case on case sensitive wikis b) for {{ns:special}} [[special:foo]] should be equivalent to [[SpECIaL:Foo]]. note: generic namespaces are completely case insensitive regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
please note that the *error message* capitalizes the first character http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:specialpages generates ---- *No such special page* You have requested an invalid special page, a list of valid special pages may be found at Special:Specialpages. Return to Main Page ---- *S*pecialpages with *S*
see also bug 2874: Special namespace case sensitive when $wgCapitalLinks=false;
(In reply to comment #5) > see also > bug 2874: Special namespace case sensitive when $wgCapitalLinks=false; Ups! This was posted at the wrong place.
*** Bug 5132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #4) > please note that the *error message* capitalizes the first character Of course it does. It doesn't require thought to realise the reason for that.
Works fine with 1.9alpha r18226 . Marking bug as fixed.
