Author: logical2u
Description:
In the Go/Search bar on the side of the Wikipedia (And hence, Wikimedia) pages,
you can put in almost any combination of capitalizations to get the to the proper
article. Example: Prestige Oil Spill yields
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_oil_spill . However, using internal
wikilinks (The double square brackets) on Prestige Oil Spill (IE: [[en:Prestige
Oil Spill]]) yields a broken link, because it attempts to go the improperly
capitalized URL.
There are, in my best estimate, more than 5000 redirects on the English
Wikipedia simply to attempt to avoid this error. This is very conservative, as
there are 1.4
million decent sized articles on the English Wikipedia.
I thought this would go in site requests, but apparently not, so it's in
general. Low priority, and Minor severity, since it's not important to have it
fixed immediately. There is already a working work-around, but this would
resolve some things.
OS and Platform shouldn't matter, since it's something to do with the Wikimedia
software.
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Capitalizations