Manual talk:$wgCapitalLinks

This is not working for usernames though. Is that intended? --Knakts 22:23, 2 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Usernames are always capitalized for compatibility. --Brion VIBBER 06:16, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * So how can this forcing of capital letters be removed completely? I am quite anal and really do not like this.  66.24.28.141 01:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Media Only?
Is it possible to have $wgCapitalLinks=False apply to files only and not article? I still would like initial letter to be upper-cased for articles, but the names/links of any uploaded files to stay lower case. This means that abc.png and Abc.png would be different files. --DavidMarsh 02:15, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This would be a great feature, making it easier for designers to work with MediaWiki. Jlerner 13:55, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

changing from false to true
Initially we created our wiki with $wgCapitalLinks = false, but now we want it to be true. Users were confused by the behavior when 'Apple' was not the same page as 'apple'.

Unfortunately now all the old page names that began with a lowercase letter do not work. Is there a script or other process to capitalize all titles?

I'm thinking that iterating over namespace 0,2,4,...,12 (even numbers) would be sufficient if there is not an easier way. Talk pages are odd numbers and start with the same page names, move transfers talk pages by default. Namespace numbers are listed in the code under includes/Defines.php

Images (namespace 6) are a special case. Currently the only way I know to move them is: upload the same file to the correct name, delete the image with incorrect name. Hopefully a future version of mediawiki will have image move capability see bug 709.

Thogarty 20:15, 1 July 2008 (UTC)