Hi Kushal,
have you thought about using the filelink-Extension?
With that extension, your users can choose which file the want to make a link to
and the extension does the rest...
Greetings
Katharina
Kushal Koolwal schrieb am 06.11.2009 19:57:
> MediaWiki: 1.12
> Host OS: Linux
>
> Most of our intranet mediawiki users are very non-technical. We link to a lot
> of file that resides on Windows shared network drive in our mediawiki
> articles. There are hundreds and hundreds of such files. These files and
> their paths have "spaces" in them which needs to be converted into their
> ASCII equivalent of "%20".
>
> Using {{urlencode}} does not work because it converts "spaces" into "+"
> character according to RFC1738.
>
> Right now I am using string replacement extension and created a template
> called "Delspace" with following function:
>
> {{#replace:{{{1}}}| |%20}}
>
> and I am using the template in our wiki articles like this (for example):
> [{{delspace|file///Z:/my project/final results.pdf}} Link to results.pdf]
>
> The above works but as I mentioned before, most of the users are
> non-technical (word doc types) and it is kind of cumbersome for them to use
> the above template every time they need to put a link to a document.
>
> So my question(s) is:
> 1. Basically I am looking for is a way in which the users won't have to
> use the template manually every time they need to put a link to a
> document which have "spaces".
>
>
> 2. Alternatively, is there a way by which all the file:/// urls in a wiki
> article which have "spaces" get automatically converted into proper urls
> (with %20 instead of "spaces") when the user hits the "Save Page" button?
>
> Any other better solution is also welcomed.
>
> Kushal Koolwal
>
> I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/
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