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Wiki should automatically convert first letter to upper case. Wikipedia does this fine. I do not know why this Wiki does not. | Wiki should automatically convert first letter to upper case. Wikipedia does this fine. I do not know why this Wiki does not. Hopefully we will be able to fix it. --[[User:Suma|Suma]] 15:47, 25 July 2006 (CEST) | ||
:It seems it is because Hlavac thought it is a good idea. Let us see if he is able to fix it. --[[User:Suma|Suma]] 10:17, 26 July 2006 (CEST) | |||
::I guess the case sensitivity of the wiki was set to case sensitive, since all the scripting commands would have been converted to uppercase (like Goto, Direction etc.) else. If this isn't much of a problem, the wiki could be set to case-insensitive I guess. I'm currently searching the net for solutions. --[[User:Hardrock|hardrock]] 10:34, 26 July 2006 (CEST) | |||
:::The solution is the setting [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:%24wgCapitalLinks $wgCapitalLinks] in the wiki configuration. --[[User:Hardrock|hardrock]] 10:49, 26 July 2006 (CEST) | |||
::::I have looked into it. It's not just a matter of changing this option now - seems that all the links that for pages with small caps fist letter will break if I do so. | |||
We need to first clean up pages that will collide if we turn on the case insensivity for the first letter. | |||
Most of them are simple redirects. Then I can attempt to change the page names using SQL. Then we can turn on the option and see what happens. I will prepare some lists of affected pages tomorrow. [[User:Hlavac|Hlavac]] 17:17, 27 July 2006 (CEST) | |||
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Wiki should automatically convert first letter to upper case. Wikipedia does this fine. I do not know why this Wiki does not. Hopefully we will be able to fix it. --Suma 15:47, 25 July 2006 (CEST)
- It seems it is because Hlavac thought it is a good idea. Let us see if he is able to fix it. --Suma 10:17, 26 July 2006 (CEST)
- I guess the case sensitivity of the wiki was set to case sensitive, since all the scripting commands would have been converted to uppercase (like Goto, Direction etc.) else. If this isn't much of a problem, the wiki could be set to case-insensitive I guess. I'm currently searching the net for solutions. --hardrock 10:34, 26 July 2006 (CEST)
- The solution is the setting $wgCapitalLinks in the wiki configuration. --hardrock 10:49, 26 July 2006 (CEST)
- I have looked into it. It's not just a matter of changing this option now - seems that all the links that for pages with small caps fist letter will break if I do so.
We need to first clean up pages that will collide if we turn on the case insensivity for the first letter. Most of them are simple redirects. Then I can attempt to change the page names using SQL. Then we can turn on the option and see what happens. I will prepare some lists of affected pages tomorrow. Hlavac 17:17, 27 July 2006 (CEST)