Capitalized Tags

There are a bunch of old pictures with capitalized tags like "Wriggle" instead of "wriggle"
How can I look them up?
If I search them as-is, the system gives me the uncapitalized results

do you have any examples? I wasn't aware capitalization affected search.

EasyV said:

There are a bunch of old pictures with capitalized tags like "Wriggle" instead of "wriggle"
How can I look them up?
If I search them as-is, the system gives me the uncapitalized results

Can you give us the URL for an item with a capitalized tag?

poweryoga said:

do you have any examples? I wasn't aware capitalization affected search.

It doesn't per se, but they will be mistagged in that "wriggle" will be considered a generic tag instead of a character tag, and as such those picture might not appear when looking for wriggle

Ruukasu said:

Can you give us the URL for an item with a capitalized tag?

Yeah, that's going to be a problem as I fixed those I found, and thought about asking only after the fact
If I find one again I'll link it here

if you have examples I can do a mass tag edit. The only alternative is to dig through the DB and I don't really want to do that since it's sort of like needle in a haystack.

poweryoga said:

if you have examples I can do a mass tag edit. The only alternative is to dig through the DB and I don't really want to do that since it's sort of like needle in a haystack.

Actually I just realized the system logs every tag change, so we can see the capitalized tags even though I changed them
The tag history of post #32420 shows a "Wriggle", while post #12495 had "Anko-chan" instead of "anko-chan"

Edit:
I also discovered post #20641, which has "Sanae"

so for example, does 32420 not show up if you search for "Wriggle" meaning the search is case sensitive but for some reason the results aren't?

edit: so to answer my own question: the capitalized tags don't seem to show up in searches. They look to be relics from the danbooru 1 -> danbooru 2 migration and possibly from shimmie originally. All tags are now (by default) squashed down to lower case, and searches only turn up lower cased results as well.

The way you can get these "bad" tags to show up is to really do a wildcard search, which unfortunately returns some false positives as well. For example: if you want to find "wriggle" and "Wriggle" you can use "*riggle". Do note wildcard searches are SLOW if there's a lot of hits.

Here's the bad news: there's no good way to do a bulk-edit for these bad tags since they are technically bad data.
Here's the good news: if you give me the tags I can give you a list of posts to fix (manually).

For example: "Wriggle" is in the following post IDs:

30312
30309
30031
19351
5820
30308
30307
4708
30313
19358
13563
32285
26634
12302
10842
32724
4952
18439
25997
8266
29924
18440

I've gone ahead and fixed some of them but it's somewhat late here and I'm going to sleep. But we have a solution for this, so yay! I can write up a wildcard search for this tomorrow and dig up all the "Bad tags" that we can fix.

edit edit: You don't actually need to "fix" the tags either. Just edit and submit and it'll squash it down nice and proper.

Thank you easy Dosu!
Since "edit" is all it's needed, I think I'll use the "quick edit" function (in the same menu as mass tagging) and see if I can get at least Wriggle down
Though I'm wondering if there's a way to find all capitalized tags, instead of relying on pure luck (I found those through the random post function)
Maybe a database query? Pattern matching should be case sensitive if I recall correctly

Edit: There should be no "Wriggle" anymore, though there might still be some "Sanae", and I saw at least one "Kanako"

EasyV said:

There should be no "Wriggle" anymore, though there might still be some "Sanae", and I saw at least one "Kanako"

I found one out of two tagged as "Kochiya_Sanae". It has since been fixed.

Unfortunately this isn't as easy as I thought since the string is a big concatenated list of the tags, so I'll have to try to parse the string or figure out how write a fulltext search. Will play with this some more.