update for rename of ikiwikiusers.mdwn to jasatamanjogja.mdwn

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 When you click on a broken link to create a new page, Ikiwiki lower-cases the new page's filename.  I wish it wouldn't.
 
 If I click on "Czars in Russia", I'd like Ikiwiki to create "Czars\_in\_Russia.mdwn", not "czars\_in\_russia.mdwn".  Is this possible?  --[[sabr]]
 When you click on a broken link to create a new page, Ikiwiki lower-cases the new page's filename.  I wish it wouldn't.
 
 If I click on "Czars in Russia", I'd like Ikiwiki to create "Czars\_in\_Russia.mdwn", not "czars\_in\_russia.mdwn".  Is this possible?  --[[sabr]]

+
+> There's a simple patch that can do this:
+
+<pre>
+-- a/IkiWiki.pm
++++ b/IkiWiki.pm
+@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ sub htmllink ($$$;@) {
+                       return "&lt;span class=\"createlink\">&lt;a href=\"".
+                               cgiurl(
+                                       do => "create",
+-                                      page => pagetitle(lc($link), 1),
++                                      page => pagetitle($link, 1),
+                                       from => $lpage
+                               ).
+                               "\">?&lt;/a>$linktext&lt;/span>"
+</pre>
+
+> This is fine if you don't mind mixed or randomly cased filenames getting
+> created. Otoh, if the link happened to start a sentence and so had its
+> first letter upper-cased, that might not be desired.
+> 
+> Of course ikiwiki's case insensative, and there are other ways
+> of creating pages that don't lower case them, including using the create
+> a page form on a blog (as was done for this page..).
+> 
+> I'm undecided about making the above change by default though, or about making
+> it a config option. Maybe it would be better to include both capitalisations
+> in the select list that is used to pick the name for the newly created page.
+> Then, which one is the default wouldn't much matter. (The non-lower cased
+> one would probably be the best choice.) --[[Joey]]
+>> Either of your proposed solutions (make it the default or include both in the pop-up menu) sounds fine to me.  Which one is easier? :) --[[sabr]]
+
+>>> [[Done]]; it now defaults to the mixed case title and provides
+>>> the lower-case one as an option in the select box. --[[Joey]]