On 1/19/2012 10:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> Kent A. Reed wrote:
>> Gentle persons:
>>
>> I have to switch back for a while to my primary role of being my wife's
>> caregiver but last night and this morning I managed to edit the Wiki to
>> remove most (not all) of the first-level broken links.
>>
>> For many, I have completed only the first task---copying the old page
>> over the the new page. To minimize confusion, new pages I have not had
>> time to edit internally now carry the banner "THIS PAGE IS BEING EDITED
>> TO REFLECT THE AGREEMENT TO REBRAND EMC2 TO LINUXCNC".
>>
>> Obviously, if you don't like what I've done you can change it. The only
>> thing different about managing the "new" wiki from the old is the change
>> in administrative password as stated in the BasicSteps page.
>>
>> Jon, I hope this relieves some of your frustration.
>>
>>
> YES, Thanks!!  I just saw that you have taken care of this.  One little
> thing.  Everywhere
> I put in a LinuxCNC, it has a question mark following it.  Is there some
> global thing that
> will make all those know what to link to?  Or, do I have to go into each
> place it occurs
> and link it to something?
>
> Jon
Jon:

That's because the string "LinuxCNC" satisfies the definition of a 
WikiName, aka WikiWord*. It is interpreted by our Wiki software as 
requiring a link to a target page whose URL is 
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi.bin/wiki.pl?LinuxCNC. Since the target page 
doesn't exist yet, our WIki software obligingly displays "LinuxCNC?".

If you intended "LinuxCNC" simply to be a string, then you can override 
the Wiki's interpretation with the (admittedly awkward) construction 
"<nowiki>LinuxCNC</nowiki>" to escape the string.

Of course, if you do mean "LinuxCNC" to be linked to a target page, then 
you can click on the "?" mark to be taken to an automatically generated 
new target page and start editing it. When you save the target page, the 
"?" mark will be removed and the string "LinuxCNC" made a proper Wiki 
link on the source page. If you have the source page open in one browser 
window when you save the target page for the first time, you'll probably 
have to reload/refresh the source page to see this result.

That's an interesting idea you have about placing a global page at 
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxCNC. I suppose it could say 
simply "Oops"! I like it although it may encourage authors to be lazy.

Regards,
Kent

*In several previous messages I called this a WikiWIki word. Sorry. I 
got carried away. Yes, WikiWiki was the name of yet another Wiki 
software system I once dabbled with, but it used the term WikiName too.

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