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Can I make page titles case-insensitive?
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This quote expresses what I want better than I do:

By default, MediaWiki page titles are case-sensitive. This means that “Funky Penguin” and “funky penguin” are two unique pages. This makes sense for Wikipedia, which maintains a massive and list of page names, which need to be accessible in multiple languages.

For a small internal wiki though, it’s less than ideal

Can I make page titles case-insensitive?

The instructions I could find are here: https://www.funkypenguin.co.nz/blog/make-mediawiki-page-names-case-insensitive-including-semantic-queries/#how-to-make-mediawiki-case-insensitive

Will this work on Miraheze?

Who needs to approve and implement it?

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Rsterbal created this task.Jul 26 2021, 19:49
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RhinosF1 added a comment.Jul 26 2021, 19:50

Such a collation would have to be part of the ICU Version in Debian Stable

RhinosF1 added a comment.Jul 26 2021, 19:51

I'm not convinced by changing stuff in the Database Collation so probably not tbh.

If it was purely php level then maybe.

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Reception123 added a comment.Jul 28 2021, 05:34

The only thing I can see that would help would be https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SaneCase

Unknown Object (User) added a comment.Jul 28 2021, 06:07

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_sensitivity_of_page_names

Unknown Object (User) closed this task as Declined.Jul 28 2021, 22:15
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There seems to be no method to do this exactly how you want on Miraheze at this time. The best that could potentially be done is non case-sensitive searches it would seem. But even that I'm not certain.

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