https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27963
Summary: Subpages are case-sensitive including first character
Product: MediaWiki
Version: wikimedia-deployment
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: Redirects
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: firstpeterfourten+mwb...@gmail.com
When I visit a nonexistent subpage, for example
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Talk:Washington,_D.C./archive_1
it reports that the page does not exist and that "Titles on Wikipedia are case
sensitive except for the first character."
However, the page
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Talk:Washington,_D.C./Archive_1
does exist, and the only difference is the capital A in Archive.
The expected behavior is that the first character after a slash in a subpage
name should not be case sensitive.
Before changing this, have a look at how many pages exist where there ARE two
different pages differing only by the case of the first letter after a slash
(or multiple case-changes-after-slashes, for nested subpages). Usually one
will be a redirect to the other one. Please be sure to keep access to the one
that is not a redirect.
If you think my intuitive expectation about the behavior is not at all grounded
in reasonableness, we should at least update the "page not found" documentation
to note that ALL characters, even the first, in subpage names are case
sensitive. I'd rather just have the intuitive behavior, though.
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