How do I delete an article that contains a ? in the title? And how do I prevent more of them from being created?
I created an article with a ? in the title. See
http://wise-nano.org/w/Category:Security_Policy_Implications_of_Nanotechnolo...
which contains the articles "Is there a superweapon" and "Is there a superweapon?"
I initially created the ?'d article. The system doesn't deal well with that. When I edited and saved the page, the page after the save said "There's no text here."
So I created the non-?'d version, and tried to delete the ?'d version - or maybe I tried to move the one to the other, I forget. Anyway, it didn't work. When I tried to delete the ?'d version, it deleted the non-?'d version. So I restored it.
Now the URL for the ?'d one ends in %3F but goes to the page without the ?. And when I try to delete the ?'d one, I can't (not that I ever could). And it's in a category, so I'm hesitant to hack it out of the database until I know exactly what to do to keep things consistent.
BTW, the article was created with a URL like this:
http://wise-nano.org/w?title=test%3F&makeArticle=Go%21&wpTextbox1=%5...
(You can click that URL, but PLEASE don't save it!)
That URL is weird because it was created by my easy-create-article hack (see the category page). But if I type [[test?]] it creates a URL like
http://wise-nano.org/w?title=Test%3F&action=edit
so I think this problem could happen in an unhacked wiki site too.
Thanks, Chris