User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: October 19, 2015/@comment-24473195-20151020182541/@comment-24473195-20151023095628

I've used linux for over a decade so I'm used to the crazy case sensitivity nature. Although it is very annoying to an average user. In Piotr's example above, it will match case insensitive strings, but the general idea is to minimize user typing and clicking, and get them to the page they wanted to go, for example this is a blank page:


 * http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Young_X-Men_Vol

The new feature is an improvement but it still misses the point when someone removes far too many characters. My suggestion is that all blank landing pages should have a search button. It could be a small button/icon that is out of the way.

Another idea is to simply do a prefix search and show two closest matches, maybe like in a search icon with a number (showing matches) :


 * http://marvel.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Young_X-Men_Vol&namespace=0

People coming from outside links want to find information not blank pages. Both wikia and wiki contributors benefit by having users see some existing pages, or at least having a quick and easy option to search for it. A blank page is a dead end to some users, and they might simply go back to their search engine and find the info they need on another site.

This script is really what an average visitor to a site might expect:


 * http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/MisspelledPage