Last modified: 2013-10-31 20:08:43 UTC
At the moment mw.site.namespaces accepts namespace names as keys if they are correctly capitalised. The following both work: mw.site.namespaces['Education Program'] mw.site.namespaces['Education_Program'] However, using keys with different capitalisation doesn't work: mw.site.namespaces['education program'] --> error mw.site.namespaces['education_program'] --> error mw.site.namespaces['Education program'] --> error mw.site.namespaces['Education_program'] --> error mw.site.namespaces['EdUcAtiOn pRoGrAm'] --> error mw.site.namespaces['EdUcAtiOn_pRoGrAm'] --> error However, all of these work when making wikilinks on normal wiki pages. The following will all get you to the same page: [[Education Program:Example University/Example Course (2013 Q1)]] [[education program:Example University/Example Course (2013 Q1)]] [[Education_program:Example University/Example Course (2013 Q1)]] [[EdUcAtIoN_pRoGrAm:Example University/Example Course (2013 Q1)]] It would be useful if all of these variants were accepted as keys to mw.site.namespaces. For example, at [[Module:Namespace detect]] I have discovered a bug in the "education program" parameter. The parameter name ("education program") has to match the lower-case value of title.nsText ("education_program"), but they don't match because of the underscore. Allowing both of these as keys would be a neat way to work around the problem.
I've posted a related issue at Bug 56217.
I've just realised that surrounding whitespace and underscores can work as wikilinks too: [[_ EdUcAtIon PrOgRaM _:Example University/Example Course (2013 Q1)]] I think cases like this should also be valid keys.
Change 92886 had a related patch set uploaded by Anomie: Properly handle spaces/underscores in mw.site.namespaces https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92886
Change 92886 merged by jenkins-bot: Properly handle spaces/underscores in mw.site.namespaces https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92886
Fix is merged. It should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.23wmf3, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap for the schedule.
