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→‎Search terms and page titles are case-sensitive. Redirect?: This is a discussion page and those redlinks are there to demonstrate that those terms can't be linked directly. I'm surprised editing other people's comments isn't against the rules.

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== Search terms and page titles are case-sensitive. Redirect? ==

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If you search for a page using the built-in search engine, you need to type in the exact title of the article, with all but the first letter being case-sensitive. So for example, if you search for "qi gem", you won't be sent to [[Qi Gem]], because the "G" in the title is capitalized (the "Q" can be uppercase or lowercase). Similarly, you can link to [[Qi Gem]] and [[qi Gem]] but not Qi gem or qi gem. <br>

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If you search for a page using the built-in search engine, you need to type in the exact title of the article, with all but the first letter being case-sensitive. So for example, if you search for "qi gem", you won't be sent to [[Qi Gem]], because the "G" in the title is capitalized (the "Q" can be uppercase or lowercase). Similarly, you can link to [[Qi Gem]] and [[qi Gem]] but not [[Qi gem]] or [[qi gem]]. <br>

This is a technical limitation in the MediaWiki software. Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) gets around it by making redirects for any reasonable variant of a page title people might search for. That might seem a little clunky, and indeed, the English Wikipedia has millions of redirects as a result, but it's good enough for them, and they're one of the top-ten websites in the world. <br>

I couldn't find anything definitive on whether or not we want redirects for alternative spellings and capitalization, just a few comments from last year on the old wiki. <br>

Salaereus

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