I'm thinking of using the DISPLAYTITLE tag, if a page name contains:
- brackets, commas, colons or apostrophes
I would try not to use these characters in the page name but sometimes they
have to be used. I would strip the page name of these characters and use dashes
instead, and these alternate names would appear in Recent Changes,
Contributions and other places and still look OK.
I would have to use the [[Foo|Bar]] format for making internal wiki links.
This would all be have to be done to prevent the following kinds of links from
being broken:
wiki/Don't Speak (song)
Here the page title would be: Dont Speak - song
This would be the actual name of the page and the link wouldnt break. I would
use
- {{DISPLAYTITLE|Don't Speak (song)}}
to set the correct page title. Preventing broken incoming links is a high
priority for me.
If anyone has any better suggestions on how to stop incoming links from being
broken by various characters, let me know.
Erik
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From: Eric K <[email protected]>
To: Eric K <[email protected]>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links with (, ), :, ' - break all the time
I found the question to my own answer in a previous email to this list. The
answer is at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowDisplayTitle.
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Foo}} in the page can be used to set the page title.
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From: Eric K <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 7:45 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Links with (, ), :, ' - break all the time
If anyone on an external site posts a link to our wiki, the link will often
break if it has spaces, brackets, apostrophes, colons, e.g.:
input, output rendered as:
input: www.mywiki.com/wiki/don't speakoutput: www.mywiki.com/wiki/don
[breaks at the apostrophe]
Or:
input: www.mywiki.com/wiki/orange (fruit)
output: www.mywiki.com/wiki/orange (fruit [breaks at a bracket]
And so on.
The links break and I am not able to do anything. Sometimes I email webmasters
telling them to fix their rendering software but this doesn't achieve anything.
There are 100's if not 1000s of incorrect
rendering software routines, which are just not used to treating brackets,
spaces, apostrophes and other characters correctly. I no longer want to use
these characters in the article name anymore. For internal wiki links, I can do
[[dontspeak|Don't Speak (song)]] and deal with having the article URL different
from the title for some articles. That is perfectly fine because my higher
priority is to prevent broken
links and prevent losing site visitors who could not arrive at the correct link.
How this would work is, I would probably set the Title in a separate tag, e.g.
I would create:
- www.mywiki.com/wiki/dontspeak
And on that page, I would have something like:
<title>Don't Speak (song)</title>
This would be the H1 for that page where the title is usually found. This way
people get everything they need:- a working URL that wont break on
other websites and forums
- a title that can be any number of characters long.
Does anything exist that does this, and if not, any suggestions on how to get
this done would be appreciated.
Please note, I'm not talking about sorting categories. This is about the title
of the page and its URL and for some pages I want these to be different from
each other. I see the HTML code for that heading is:
- <h1 id="firstHeading"
So maybe I would overwrite that H1 tag with that ID with my own title, or
something like that. I don't know if its possible.
thanks
Erik
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