It's hard to tell without knowing the nature of the back-end application, but redirects should be robust enough. If they aren't, then DISPLAYTITLE is probably OK, but I can't think of a reason for redirects not to work.
2012/12/10 Al Johnson <[email protected]>: > I need the pages to be addressable by a unique id that does not change for > back-end applications reasons. Are redirects my only option? > > > > ________________________________ > From: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > To: Al Johnson <[email protected]>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin > list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 11:19 PM > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title? > > Moving a page creates a redirect from the old name by default, so the > old URL still works. > > You can also use the DISPLAYTITLE magic word, but it's less robust and > should only be used in special cases. See > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words . > > -- > Amir > > 2012/12/10 Al Johnson <[email protected]>: >> Is there a way to change the page title to something other than the default >> WITHOUT changing the URL to the page? >> >> IOW, I want to make the page title editable and the link to the page before >> the edit to still work. Possible? >> >> Thanks, >> Al >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
