JumbaWiki:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)

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Lower case first letter

Titles of articles are forced to start with a capital letter, although subsequent characters can have any case, i.e.

foo is treated the same as Foo

An example of a large article affected by this problem is cPanel, which is located at CPanel.

To notify readers of the problem, include the following text at the top of the article page:

{{lowercase|lowercasetitle}}

This will produce a notice like this:

The title of this article should be lowercasetitle. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical restrictions.

Links to such articles from other pages of the wiki can start with lower case for aesthetic reasons. For example a link like this: cPanel (lower case c) will automatically be linked to CPanel (upper case C).

This restriction is due to the present lack of infrastructure for case-insensitive title matching with same case-preserving semantics in the MediaWiki software. The first letter of any link is forced to be upper case in order to allow links to work naturally both at the beginning of a sentence and in the middle. In the future, there may be a way added to make the initial letter appear lower case without breaking hundreds of thousands of links on the wiki or creating new avenues of abuse; however, there is currently no way to do this.