Manual talk:$wgRestrictDisplayTitle

what would be a use case for this setting set to true? NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis 23:18, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

iPod, among other things. --Skizzerz 00:39, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

No, for iPod, $wgAllowDisplayTitle = true would be sufficient.

For concrete use cases you'd have to ask the dozens of people who asked about this on the #mediawiki channel. I suppose people like to be able to control the display title completely -- especially, to shorten it. So the page Manual:Foo/Bar could show the title "Bar". Another use case would be the ability use characters in the title that are illegal in page names: the page called Pre-Tag could show the title <pre>. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 07:42, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

This setting (set to false) is especially useful for multilingual wikis: your wiki can display "Main Page" for the English version and "Página Principal" for the Portuguese version at "Main Page/pt", for instance. Capmo 17:37, 30 March 2009 (UTC)