<sod>  Link: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CamelCase
 
 == Camel Case and Wikipedia ==
[[Wikipedia]] started using CamelCase at first, but then converted to free links - by putting <nowiki>[[square brackets]]</nowiki> around phrases to be linked. See also: [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]].
 
The CamelCase convention used to cause some difficulty in Wikipedia, as words which were CamelCased but were not intended to be links automatically became links.
But the current Wikipedia software does not have this problem, as it no longer automatically makes CamelCase words into links.
 
 CamelCase can still be found in the non-encyclopedia parts of Wikipedia, such as Talk pages, where the links have not been updated. Many Wikipedians have CamelCased user names, either as a leftover from the early days, or carried over from other wikis. <eod> <sod> Link: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CamelCase
 
 == Camel Case and Wikipedia ==
[[Wikipedia]] started using CamelCase at first, but then converted to free links - by putting <nowiki>[[square brackets]]</nowiki> around phrases to be linked. On January 27, 2001, [[Clifford Adams]], author of the original [[UseMod]] software used for Wikipedia, posted the following to the Wikipedia mailing list:
 

    I've done a lot of thinking about WikiLinking recently, and I'm not sure 
 that the WikiName (capital letters) convention is a good fit for the  
 encyclopedia.  The AccidentalLinking is a nice feature, but it has a price in 
 harder-to-read links and confusing conventions.

    For instance, when I recently wanted to link to "democracy", I first did a
 search to see if someone else had linked the name (I thought someone might
 have already used "DemoCracy").  I found that nobody else had linked that
 name, so I made the link "DemocracY" (to follow the new convention of
 last-letter-capitalized).  In short, it took me far more time to make that
 link than it would have to just type <nowiki>[[democracy]]</nowiki>.  Someone unfamiliar with
 the local wiki conventions might guess otherwise on another page and link to a
 separate "DemoCracy" or even "DeMocracy".  Ick.

    To make a longish story short, I added code (about 150 new lines of Perl)
 to my development copy to allow (site-optional) "Free" linking within [[double
 brackets]].  You can use spaces, numbers, commas, dashes, and the period
 character in these kinds of links.  Valid link names include [[George W.
 Bush]], <nowiki>[[China-Soviet Relations]], [[Physics]], [[music]], and [[Year 2000</nowiki>
 bug]].  User names can also use these new links.  Internally and within URLs
 the spaces are replaced with _ (underline) characters, which are translated
 back to spaces for display purposes.
 
 CamelCase can still be found in the non-encyclopedia parts of Wikipedia, such as Talk pages, where the links have not been updated. Many Wikipedians have CamelCased user names, either as a leftover from the early days, or carried over from other wikis. <eod>