Use display title from page_props as the displayed title everywhere (tracking)
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	Krinkle
	Jun 27 2010, 5:06 PM

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See the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=iPhone_4&action=historysubmit&diff=370442530&oldid=370442262
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=iPhone_4&action=history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MovePage/iPhone_4

The DISPLAYTITLE for a small 'i' isn't being applied there.

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Reference: bz24139

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Invalid		Amire80	T30708 BiDi: LTR and RTL mixed up (tracking)
Open		None	T409622 Use display title in language variant in links
Open		None	T26139 Use display title from page_props as the displayed title everywhere (tracking)
Duplicate		None	T18350 Use display title of category in page footer (reflecting lower-intial per DISPLAYTITLE)
Open	BUG REPORT	None	T30411 titles of articles with LTR titles in RTL wikis may be displayed incorrectly in categories and special pages
Open		None	T30428 Allow saving pages with LRM and RLM in titles, showing a warning and requiring a user right
Resolved		Nikerabbit	T46197 Category text "Pages in category "foo"" does not use DISPLAYTITLE
Open		None	T43591 DISPLAYTITLE does not work in MediaWiki:noarticletext
Open		None	T65975 Search results do not respect DISPLAYTITLE
Open		None	T51667 <title> of editing page doesn't respect DISPLAYTITLE
Open		None	T72275 diffs do not respect DISPLAYTITLE
Open	Feature	None	T66703 Title autocompletion should also match display title and show it
Resolved		None	T43720 DISPLAYTITLE of a page not applied on for category headers
Open	Feature	None	T181403 Have translated page names in the suggestions and in the search results
Declined		None	T169435 Incorporate pages with display title set into search results
Duplicate	Feature	None	T61075 {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} not taken into account when opening a page for editing (but okay during previewing)
Open		None	T72274 page revision history <title>/<h1> do not respect DISPLAYTITLE
Open		None	T160409 Make DISPLAYTITLE act on talk page automatically when included in some page
Open	Feature	None	T322011 Automatic generation of a name page should respect DISPLAYTITLE
Open	Feature	None	T31975 Provide a way to alter page titles in category listings, e.g. via display title
Duplicate		None	T19212 Use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} as link label on category pages
Resolved		None	T22278 Cache DISPLAYTITLE to use it in categories and for tooltips
Declined		None	T55945 A cheap way to get information from page_props table for all links on page (similar to LinkCache?) needed
Open	Feature	None	T24586 Allow (optional) displaying of sort key rather than (full)page names for category items
Invalid	Feature	None	T350648 Show redirects in categories with suffix, not italics.
Open	Feature	None	T337697 Search suggestions for Vector-2022, Minerva, and VisualEditor should italicize titles as appropriate

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:04 PM

• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-Page-diffs, I18n, Tracking-Neverending.

• bzimport set Reference to bz24139.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Krinkle created this task.Jun 27 2010, 5:06 PM

If a DIFF page is going to honor DISPLAYTITLE, then we should also decide what to be shown if a DIFF is comparing a change in DISPLAYTITLE; do we want the previous or the new DISPLAYTITLE to be applied in such a diff?

Considering that the text below the diff-view is the rendering of the 'new' revision. I think it'd make sense for the DISPLAYTITLE also to be of the 'new' revision.

Bug 30908 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Bug 41720 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Nemo_bis mentioned this in T43720: DISPLAYTITLE of a page not applied on for category headers.Dec 28 2015, 6:06 PM

• Phabricator_maintenance removed a parent task: T4007: [DO NOT USE] Tracking bug [superseded by #Tracking].Jul 28 2016, 2:33 AM

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matej_suchanek added subtasks: T43591: DISPLAYTITLE does not work in MediaWiki:noarticletext, T65975: Search results do not respect DISPLAYTITLE, T51667: <title> of editing page doesn't respect DISPLAYTITLE, T72275: diffs do not respect DISPLAYTITLE, T66703: Title autocompletion should also match display title and show it.Oct 27 2016, 8:31 PM

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Kghbln awarded a token.Oct 27 2016, 8:41 PM

Fomafix mentioned this in T66528: Allow manual insertion of soft hyphen in display title.Jan 23 2017, 6:08 AM

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matej_suchanek added a subtask: T43720: DISPLAYTITLE of a page not applied on for category headers.Feb 2 2018, 8:31 PM

Jdforrester-WMF closed subtask T43720: DISPLAYTITLE of a page not applied on for category headers as Resolved.Sep 12 2018, 4:24 PM

Jdforrester-WMF reopened subtask T43720: DISPLAYTITLE of a page not applied on for category headers as Open.

Jdforrester-WMF closed subtask T46197: Category text "Pages in category "foo"" does not use DISPLAYTITLE as Resolved.

Nemo_bis added a subtask: T181403: Have translated page names in the suggestions and in the search results.Aug 20 2020, 7:51 AM

Nemo_bis added a subtask: T169435: Incorporate pages with display title set into search results.

cicalese closed subtask T169435: Incorporate pages with display title set into search results as Declined.Sep 3 2020, 6:11 PM

Aklapper changed the status of subtask T30411: titles of articles with LTR titles in RTL wikis may be displayed incorrectly in categories and special pages from Open to Stalled.Feb 6 2022, 7:05 PM

Amire80 changed the status of subtask T30411: titles of articles with LTR titles in RTL wikis may be displayed incorrectly in categories and special pages from Stalled to Open.Feb 6 2022, 7:21 PM

• MPhamWMF closed subtask T65975: Search results do not respect DISPLAYTITLE as Declined.Aug 1 2022, 9:25 PM

Tgr reopened subtask T65975: Search results do not respect DISPLAYTITLE as Open.Aug 2 2022, 5:22 AM

matmarex closed subtask T43720: DISPLAYTITLE of a page not applied on for category headers as Resolved.Aug 9 2022, 4:18 AM

matmarex added subtasks: T61075: {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} not taken into account when opening a page for editing (but okay during previewing), T72274: page revision history <title>/<h1> do not respect DISPLAYTITLE.Aug 9 2022, 4:46 AM

matej_suchanek added subtasks: T160409: Make DISPLAYTITLE act on talk page automatically when included in some page, T322011: Automatic generation of a name page should respect DISPLAYTITLE.Nov 13 2022, 2:48 PM

Winston_Sung moved this task from Untriaged to Analysis on the I18n board.Aug 9 2023, 1:38 PM

I thought I'd mention, this issue has sparked a move proposal of xkcd to XKCD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Xkcd#Requested_move_29_March_2025

From what I've found, DISPLAYTITLE is not honored in:

Category page lists, T386606 (should be linked to this tracking issue?), for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3AIPod many pages in this category appear as "IPod" instead of "iPod"
URL - should honor DISPLAYTITLE only if it resolves the same, i.e. if $wgRestrictDisplayTitle would have allowed it
Search results: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=xkcd&ns0=1&fulltext=Search
Search box (meaning instant results when typing in the search box, before pressing Enter)
Whichever API endpoint DuckDuckGo pulls from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DuckDuckGo_IPhone_capital_I.jpg and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DuckDuckGo_Xkcd_capital_X.jpg
Navigation popups gadget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups (I have not verified this myself)
Page name in revision history, logs, and perhaps other editor-facing pages - this is probably a good thing for arbitrary titles, but like the URL, if $wgRestrictDisplayTitle would allow the title, it should be honored in these places.

I imagine that many of these can be solved together - e.g. if you make the "true page name" in the database follow the DISPLAYTITLE (when it resolves to the same place), then URL, revision history, API, etc. might all be solved at once. I know nothing of MediaWiki's database or architecture so this is pure speculation.

Displaytitle not appearing in search has forced my wiki, where the page names are wikidata Qnumbers, to have vast numbers of REDIRECT pages. I'm frustrated that changing this is such low priority

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matmarex added a subtask: T31975: Provide a way to alter page titles in category listings, e.g. via display title.Jul 2 2025, 12:36 AM

matmarex added a subtask: T337697: Search suggestions for Vector-2022, Minerva, and VisualEditor should italicize titles as appropriate.

matmarex mentioned this in T315893: Add space between page namespace and page title.Jul 2 2025, 12:53 AM

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Bugreporter added a parent task: T409622: Use display title in language variant in links.Nov 8 2025, 6:08 AM