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Revision 28 . . November 13, 2001 4:30 am by Larry Sanger
Revision 27 . . November 13, 2001 2:35 am by (logged).196.133.xxx
Revision 26 . . November 12, 2001 9:07 am by (logged).196.133.xxx
Revision 25 . . October 5, 2001 9:23 am by AstroNomer
  

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Basically, we never switched to the newest version of UseModWiki, because we never solved the problem of the namespace crunch, where "Foo Bar" and "foo bar" were distinct articles in Wikipedia but one of which would be lost in converting to the newest version of UseModWiki.

After working on the [Nupedia Chalkboard]?, which does use the latest version of UseModWiki, as for myself, I've more or less come to the conclusion that it's rather better to have the old format, which does distinguish between upper and lower case in titles. I'm not directly responsible for the fact that Magnus' software does distinguish between upper and lower case in titles, but neither did I speak up when I noticed that it still does. Frankly, I was a bit relieved that it did, because the titles do look nicer according to the older standard. I think we'd have even more of a problem (a wetware problem) with people making links All Upper Case, since they think that'd be necessary for the link to work. --LMS

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