The SaneCase extension automatic corrects case mistakes. For example if the page
Test
exists, and someone goes to TEST
, they will be automatically redirected
to Test
with a 301.
This is really much more sane than the default case-sensitivity.
This implements the "Auto redirect option" from Case sensitivity of page names:
Automatically redirect to a page that has same spelling but different capitalization (have the computer do the disambiguation pages when a spelling doesn't match an existing page)
Negatives: Performance and possible search engine duplicate content penalties caused by MediaWiki's redirection mechanism.
My response to that: