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________________________________ From: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> To: Al Johnson <[email protected]>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title? Internally, a redirect with a short title may do the work. You can choose any string. If the sentence is too long for a title, DISPLAYTITLE will probably help. For the actual creation of the redirect you should probably create a gadget or an extension. You can find instructions for that at mediawiki.org. 2012/12/10 Al Johnson <[email protected]>: > Thanks Amir. Allow me to back-up. My page titles may have very long strings > of text, such as a sentence; I know that sounds strange. But, testing I see > that there is a limit to how long a title can be. So, I would like to > override that somehow and use urls for all pages using a page ID instead of > the page title. And, obviously, allow the page title be set in the freetext > area of the page by an editor so there is no restriction on the page title > length. I hope I described that ok. > > Al > > > > ________________________________ > From: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > To: Al Johnson <[email protected]>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin > list <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 12:12 AM > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title? > > The MediaWiki API can handle MediaWiki redirects, so it should work. > > > 2012/12/10 Al Johnson <[email protected]>: >> It is for general synchronization purposes with an application that will >> need to make changes to a page based on the page ID. The app will use the >> api to create/edit pages and store it's page id in another DB. The app >> needs to be able to fetch the page and edit, etc, and needs an unchanging >> unique id to do this. It's got to handle when someone changes the page >> title which is also a requirement. >> >> Al >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> >> To: Al Johnson <[email protected]>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin >> list <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 11:42 PM >> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title? >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
