Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Archive/Linksto should be case-insensitive in the first character

Random proposal ►◄ Archive

Linksto should be case-insensitive in the first character

Done Completed while the survey was underway.

• Problem: When using "linksto" with a title beginning with a lowercase letter on a wiki with $wgCapitalLinks set to true, no results appear at all.

• Who would benefit: Users who want to find links as an alternative to WhatLinksHere, but do not want to force the first letter to be capitalized.

• Proposed solution: The "linksto" keyword should behave the same as the other keywords. This means that "linksto:foo" (with an initial lowercase letter) should return the same results as "linksto:Foo" (with an initial uppercase letter).

• More comments:

• Phabricator tickets:

• Proposer: GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:31, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

Could you add an example (link) where this is currently being used ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:03, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

@TheDJ: Go to en:Special:Search/linksto:main Page and you'll see what I mean here. A proposed solution is at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMW8c9fc89ce3d7e0b5064981623dab7fde770af4b2. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:35, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/390848/ Max Semenik (talk) 01:14, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Since the above patch has been merged, this wish is resolved. Max Semenik (talk) 19:18, 13 November 2017 (UTC)