Maybe this can be automatically done in any wiki that disabled $wgCapitalLinks?

Shouldn't this be done by core then? Or is Minerva overriding something?

Presumably this needs to be done in SkinMustache::buildSearchProps in core, yes as part of the making of html-input

Sounds like a fast-yet-effective fix to this problem. Not sure why the priority got lowered since more and more people are using their smartphone to browse the Wiktionary.

@DSwissK: Other things unfortunately became more important in the meantime. Contributed patches are highly welcome if you'd like to see this fixed. :)

Change 635286 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ammarpad; owner: Ammarpad):
[mediawiki/core@master] Respect $wgCapitalLinks in Search input field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/635286

Since Wiktionary is case-sensitive on first character ($wgCapitalLinks is set to false), searching lower-case titles on mobile could be frustrating if > auto capitalization is enabled. The fix is just adding autocapitalize="off" to the search <input> element.

Let me clarify one thing here to avoid misunderstanding after the change, because this task description is assuming something which will not happen.

Note that, there's no any "auto capitalization" on search input text (not the result) of MediaWiki, even on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search. If you change the case of your (virtual) keyboard, there's nothing that will modify your input to enable the supposed capitalization. (except maybe local userscript)

The attribute is not well-named, because it actually does not enable "auto capitalization". What it does is to effect change to the initial state of virtual keys based on the value. So don't think that your input will automatically be lowercase after this change. It won't. (Only the virtual keys will be). If you toggle the upper case before typing, you'll see upper case in the search field, nothing will change them back to lowercase.

Also, if you're using physical keyboard, you'll not see any change. If you're typing in Wiktionary that uses a unicameral script, you'll not see any change. Nothing at all.

Yes, that's exactly what we need in Wiktionary : virtual keyboard not upercasing the first letter by default.

OK, that's good to hear.

Change 635286 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Respect $wgCapitalLinks in Search input field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/635286

Note this won't fix the issue on Minerva until T266072 is further along.
In particular https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-MinervaNeue/blob/master/includes/Skins/skin.mustache#L21 needs to make use of https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/includes/skins/SkinMustache.php#L170

In T251664#6572547, @Jdlrobson wrote:

Note this won't fix the issue on Minerva until T266072 is further along.

It's marked as "resolved", so will the patch work now?

Change 836268 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[design/codex@main] Allow customization of autocapitalize attribute

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/836268

Change 836268 merged by jenkins-bot:

[design/codex@main] Allow customization of autocapitalize attribute

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/836268

Change 849191 had a related patch set uploaded (by VolkerE; author: VolkerE):

[mediawiki/core@master] Update Codex from v0.2.1 to v0.2.2

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/849191

Change 849191 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Update Codex from v0.2.1 to v0.2.2

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/849191

The Codex release is done. Vector can now set the autocapitalize attribute appropriately.

Change 849652 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] Codex search should respect autocapitalize value from $wgCapitalLinks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/849652

Change 849652 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] Codex search should respect autocapitalize value from $wgCapitalLinks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/849652

I don't see any change on mobile browsers (FF & Chrome) and plwiktionary (1.40.0-wmf.8), on-screen keys are automatically upper-cased when I focus the search bar. On a desktop browser using the Minerva skin the search input field has an autocapitalize="none" attribute.

Thanks for checking. It seems there has been no update to the mobile JS. It seems the autocapitalization attribute gets lost when JavaScript enhances the element.

The attribute needs to be added here as well:
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/master/src/mobile.startup/search/SearchHeaderView.js#L46

Passed in as a parameter here:
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/master/src/mobile.startup/search/SearchOverlay.js#L26

And passed in from Minerva:
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-MinervaNeue/blob/master/resources/skins.minerva.scripts/search.js#L40

I'd happily review and merge any attempt to fix this.

Change 857850 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Add support for autocapitalize in MobileFrontend search overlay

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/857850

Change 857851 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Disable auto-capitalization hint on search field of wikis with $wgCapitalLinks = false

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/857851

Change 857850 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Add support for autocapitalize in MobileFrontend search overlay

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/857850

Change 857851 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Disable auto-capitalization hint on search field of wikis with $wgCapitalLinks = false

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/857851

The autocomplete attribute is now "sentences", not "off". Any reason why?

@Betseg it depends which wiki you are looking at.
On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakerato the value is sentences.
On https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shakerato the value is off.
The value depends on how the wiki is configured to use https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCapitalLinks - and this is determined by community consensus.

If it's incorrect on a wiki you frequent, it's best to request a configuration change (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes) by going through your community portal.

I'm talking about Minerva Neue on English Wiktionary.

@Jdlrobson I wrote this message on the weekend, pinging in case you miss it.

Weird.. I'm not seeing that myself. I'm wondering if this could perhaps be a caching issue...

You may need to apply ?action=purge to the page if you are seeing the sentences value.

Can you try that and tell me if this issue still exists?
Thanks in advance!

It works for me on mobile Chrome, it doesn't on mobile Firefox. This should be consistent with both of your screenshots.

@PeterBowman this is a browser hint. It's my understanding Firefox mobile doesn't support it. The attribute appears to be set correctly for me there.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/autocapitalize

@Jdlrobson First changelog on the "Details" section of this task has the autocapitalize: 'sentences' code.

In T251664#8572571, @Betseg wrote:

@Jdlrobson First changelog on the "Details" section of this task has the autocapitalize: 'sentences' code.

Hi @Betseg I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. The line you reference to is not the final value. Hopefully this makes sense if you are technical:

• That code uses util.extend. It's overridden by props which flows from searchHeader:

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/8f104f2c57104e4eb7c7917c9ade81ec444bfbfd/src/mobile.startup/search/searchHeader.js#L19

• searchHeader is called inside SearchOverlay https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/8f104f2c57104e4eb7c7917c9ade81ec444bfbfd/src/mobile.startup/search/SearchOverlay.js#L33
• SearchOverlay is initialized here from the HTML value

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-MinervaNeue/blob/e91457643827ecc3d79bd501bf428d5c8c0d75c5/resources/skins.minerva.scripts/search.js#L43

Are you seeing the issue still on that page ? (not sure if you missed by earlier comment T251664#8571060 )

It's also possible a gadget might be interfering some how...

In T251664#8572651, @Jdlrobson wrote:

Are you seeing the issue still on that page ? (not sure if you missed by earlier comment T251664#8571060 )

Yes, I am, and yes I purged the page.

It's also possible a gadget might be interfering some how...

In the screenshot I posted I'm in a private tab with no cookies and it still has autocapitalize="sentences"

Okay I can replicate this in Firefox now. I've opened T328390. Glad we got to the bottom of this! Thanks for flagging this issue!