Mediawiki's built-in search engine deserves a very special place in a programming Hall of Shame somewhere
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steve_c
on July 18, 2007
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Discussion (4)
Most of MediaWiki belongs in a hall of shame. It's a hideous pile of ass.
The sad part is that it's probably the best wiki software i've seen widely used. The no-lowercase-first-letter restriction on titles is completely pointless, and they should just turn it off instead of wasting time with javascript workarounds, but at least it doesn't force all titles into CamelCase and all CamelCase words into (usually broken) links.
Steve: Well, Wiktionary does allow lowercase first letters in titles, so I'm guessing it's a standard MediaWiki option. If that's the case, I really don't see why it isn't enabled by default.
And yeah, Wikipedia's {{Lowercase}} template just plain sucks.