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If I am elsewhere in the wiki and I insert a nonexistent page name in the upper right search field, it performs a case-insensitive search and if an almost identical page is found, this almost identical page is displayed. If I click the magnifier icon in the search field, I am redirected to the special page Search. The same search input there gives me the search results and a link to create this searched but nonexistent page.

At the moment I am creating severeal templates in this wiki here (MW 1.31.3). One existing template - because its set to german langauge, they are called Vorlage; this means template - one existing template is called Vorlage:NIV-II with an upper case I at its end. Then I want to create another template called Vorlage:NIV-Ii with a lower case i at its end. I entered this Vorlage:NIV-Ii in the search field and immediately the Vorlage:NIV-II template poped up. After that I created a template named Vorlage:NIV-Iie. This worked fine. Thereafter I moved the Vorlage:NIV-Iie template to Vorlage:NIV-Ii. This worked fine, too. Now both templates are alive and kicking. The question is: why was I not able to create the template with the lower case i in the first place? Is there a little gremlin at work?

Many thanks for an illuminating answer in advance!

I'm not sure why. It sounds like a bug. If you report it, could you link to the bug here?

When you perform a search (go search) it tries to get the exact title first, and if not, it tries a case-insensitive search. Only if the case-insensitive search fails it would display you the search results page and a link to create that page.

I see. If I am elsewhere in the wiki and I insert a nonexistent page name in the upper right search field, it performs a case-insensitive search and if an almost identical page is found, this almost identical page is displayed. If I click the magnifier icon in the search field, I am redirected to the special page Search. The same search input there gives me the search results and a link to create this searched but nonexistent page.