Allow page title to be lowercase

[merktnichts]

Currently the first letter of a page title ALWAYS gets capitalized. We got pages which have to start with a lower case letter.

If that feature is already in, I'd like to know how to accomplish this, as Deki (Hayes 1.8.1c) always capitalizes the first letter here, as it seems.

Thx again! ;)

(I know from other wikis that this isn't possible there either, but Deki is way ahead all of them in many ways, so why not being the top one in this case as well? *g*)
Edit: Oooops! Seems that MediaWiki can do it (wikipedia, try e.g. "iTunes"). So either it's me who doesn't find that feature in Deki or it's a new feature request (or one of those "secret" settings only you know *g*).

[SteveB]

MediaWiki used to not allow it. Also, many wikis use CamelCase notation for auto-wiki links. Regardless, this is convention whose time has come and passed. Thanks for bringing it up!

[royk]

you can override this behavior by setting in localsettings.php:

$wgCapitalLinks = false;

caveat: this hasn't been fully tested, and i know in some places it will cause a bad userex (sorting won't be done correctly, like in the link dialogs).

[merktnichts]

I like caves, so I set the variable. Works at first look. (Hehe, I knew you guys had some secret setting in your pocket for that.)

Do you want reports about drawbacks I (or my tester/s) might come across? I'd post them in this thread, just in case you're interested.

@steve: Yup, I also thought MediaWiki wasn't capable of lowercase titles, so it surprised me a bit that the iTunes entry was written correctly. So my brain didn't cheat me. ;-)
Great that Deki is/will be on track concerning this feature.