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Existing lowercase titles create troubles
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Description

In the past, MediaWiki recognizes [[Ɑ]] and [[ɑ]] two different titles, but now, [[Ɑ]] is recognized as the uppercase form of [[ɑ]], creating troubles below. This may also happen to wikis flipping $wgCapitalLinks after they've been used for a while.

Original status:

[[Ɑ]] is a redirect to [[ɑ]]; [[ɑ]] has contents.

When [[Ɑ]] becomes the uppercase form:

[[ɑ]] is never accessible directly, but accessible as a redirect target of [[Ɑ]].

After I edit [[Ɑ]]:

[[ɑ]] becomes inaccessible, even if I change [[Ɑ]] back to the string "#REDIRECT [[ɑ]]" (in this case [[Ɑ]] becomes a self-redirect).

To finally resolve the issue:

Use api.php?action=move to move [[ɑ]] (identified by its page id) to some "ucfirst"ed title.


Version: 1.22.0
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz47474

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:24 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz47474.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

I don't think this is a redirect bug. The redirect just happens to exist there. Without that redirect, the bug still appears, even in a worse situation ([[ɑ]] becomes inaccessible at all).