The search box on IFWiki, at the top of the page, has a great feature of a drop-down menu of matches when you type in a query,
However it is case sensitive, so typing in “glkote” means nothing appears, even though you can press enter and the “real” search takes you to the GlkOte page.
Would it be possible to make the search box be case insensitive like the “real” search?
What browser(s) and device(s) are you using to access IFWiki? I have nothing to do with the maintenance of it, but I don’t have the same issue. I can use any case and suggestions pop up as expected.
It seems to be case-insensitive on the first letter only, which seems like a weird choice.
Maybe for a Wikipedia-scale operation, you need that rule to keep the number of suggetsions under control. For us, full case insensitivity would probably be fine.
From a quick search it looks like an answer is Extension:TitleKey - MediaWiki – I’ll give that a go next week.
Well I typed “glkote” (quickly) and nothing popped up. I’d be surprised if this was browser-specific, but my browser is FireFox 128.6.0
You are right that the suggestions and the subsequent search are two different things:
glko it won’t show suggestions (case sensitivity), and search won’t turn up anything either (not a full word).glkO you will get suggestions but still won’t get search results.glkote works for search only.glkOte will work for both.First letter case insensitivity makes some sense because wiki page titles all begin with a capital (though it’s possible to display them as lowercase).
I totally understand if improving this is not feasible, e.g. because it would require extra disk space, or additional dependencies, or too much coding work, etc…
