Hello, did someone, by any chance, already make that change? On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
Hello, all,
The wiki currently has $wgCapitalLinks = false; meaning that if one wishes to link to e.g. [[Columns]] inside a sentence one must write "See the [[Columns|columns]] article." And if one links to another article, one must remember whether its title is lowercase, Titlecase, or if it doesn't matter because a redirect exists.
Proposal: I propose we set $wgCapitalLinks = true; $wgCapitalLinkOverrides[ NS_FILE ] = false; This will make writing a link as [[Article]] or [[article]] both correct, but retain case sensitivity in the rest of the article title. In the file namespace, however, case sensitivity will be retained for the entire name, so that people won't have to download e.g. "T-lilypond.tex".
The setting was changed from true to false in past on purpose. I found it very annoying that all the words were capitalized, even if there was no reason to capitalized them. Filenames (like http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cont-tmf.zip, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/First-setup.sh) are not the only cases. "write18" is another one etc. Even if you change that setting, you still have no idea whether a page is "Font Tools" or "Font tools" or "font tools". You can make a link to [[font tools]] or [[headers and footers]] inside your sentence, but that still won't help you to get to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Tools http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Headers_and_Footers and most article names are actually very hard to guess, and in contrast to wikipedia, the ConTeXt wiki hardly covers any substantial amount of common words or phrases.
Motivation below. Comments, agreement, disagreement welcome.
Personally I'm against that change.
Motivation: Redirects can (and do) solve this, and so can changing the link, but that is busywork that nobody should have to do.
I agree, but having filenames capitalized is even more silly.
* article titles will consistently be displayed in Titlecase
That is not always desired.
* for titles that should start in lowercase, such as [[texexec]] or [[first-setup]], we'll need to add e.g. {{DISPLAYTITLE:texexec}}.
That partially compensates, but ... Mojca PS: can anyone please explain me what's with http://wiki.contextgarden.net/First-setup.sh it's almost "an infinite chain" of redirects ... The real page, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/First-setup, is the one that actually makes least sense to me.