Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Ryan Rempel
<rgrempel(a)gmail.com>)m>):
I'm starting a new intranet-style wiki, and I'd like to make the wiki
links fully case-insensitive.
You should be able to get away with only changing a few things in
Title.php, to make the DB form, display form, and URL form all case
folded.
If you want to force all titles to all-lowercase that might work well
enough. Search for instances of $wgCapitalLinks for the code that does
the first-letter normalization to find places you'd want to change to do
it this way.
This wouldn't be sufficient to get a decent user experience in general
(eg for any of Wikimedia's sites); titles pulled from the database would
only be available in the folded (eg lowercase) form, but most people
wouldn't be too happy about article titles like "washington, d.c." and
"ibm".
Making it work well would require storing the display form as well in a
few places, which would require schema changes, and some additional
provsions for changing the display form, etc.
Ryan Rempel wrote:
From what I've
read, it may be that the chief technical problem is dealing with
existing pages whose title differs only in case. Since I'm starting
from scratch, that wouldn't be a concern for me.
No, that's a one-time conversion issue which would just require some
brute force.
The chief technical problem is getting unique case-insensitive matching
*while* preserving the given case of page titles in a sane, consistent way.
Adding a title display form field to the page table probably would get
partway there, but not all; dealing sanely with pages that don't exist
yet may take additional work.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)