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Giovanni

7 Oct 2004 7 Oct '04

4:41 p.m.

Hi, I've set up a wiki about programming. When I write, for example, [[C++]] as link, this don't give me a correct link. Is this a bug or there is a solution? Thank Giovanni Putignano

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Rowan Collins

7 Oct 7 Oct

6:27 p.m.

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:41:55 +0200, Giovanni <gputignano(a)tiscali.it> wrote:

Hi, I've set up a wiki about programming. When I write, for example, [[C++]] as link, this don't give me a correct link. Is this a bug or there is a solution?

Neither. Article names containing certain characters are not allowed, because they would be misinterpretted by the server and/or browser, potential leading to bugs or even security breaches. +, for instance, is used in URLs to represent a space, so the URL "...path/to/wiki/C++" would be interprettes as "...path/to/wiki/C" The English Wikipedia uses the name [[C Plus Plus]] for its article on the language, and adds a template explaining that this is not the "correct" title. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28technical_rest… which includes a list of disallowed characters. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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Giovanni

6:33 p.m.

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Thanks for the answer. It could be better to find an alternative solution to this problem. I'm the only that need this feature? Besides I need other sintax as C#, for example. Excuse me for my bad english. Giovanni putignano

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Brion Vibber

6:42 p.m.

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On Oct 7, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Giovanni wrote:

Thanks for the answer. It could be better to find an alternative solution to this problem. I'm the only that need this feature? Besides I need other sintax as C#, for example. Excuse me for my bad english.

That definitely won't work, as # is reserved for specifying "anchor" positions on a page. Blame Microsoft for choosing a web-unfriendly name. ;) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Giovanni

6:51 p.m.

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Ok, Plus Plus stay for ++, what for #? diesis is ok? Or what? Giovanni Putignano

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tic＠tictric.net

10:50 p.m.

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Thanks for the answer. It could be better to find an alternative solution to this problem. I'm the only that need this feature? Besides I need other sintax as C#, for example. Excuse me for my bad english.

How about <nowiki> * + [ ] # </nowiki> ? --tic

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Rowan Collins

11:49 p.m.

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On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:50:01 +0200, tic(a)tictric.net <tic(a)tictric.net> wrote:

Thanks for the answer. It could be better to find an alternative solution to this problem. I'm the only that need this feature? Besides I need other sintax as C#, for example. Excuse me for my bad english.

How about <nowiki> * + [ ] # </nowiki> ?

That doesn't make any difference to the links, and the URLs generated therefrom. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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tic＠tictric.net

8 Oct 8 Oct

6:53 a.m.

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How about <nowiki> * + [ ] # </nowiki> ?

That doesn't make any difference to the links, and the URLs generated therefrom.

Should have been reading more carfully :-) You need the links. That's bad.

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Brion Vibber

7 Oct 7 Oct

6:27 p.m.

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On Oct 7, 2004, at 9:41 AM, Giovanni wrote:

Hi, I've set up a wiki about programming. When I write, for example, [[C++]] as link, this don't give me a correct link. Is this a bug or there is a solution?

The + character is not currently allowed in page titles. It might or might not work if you add it to the legal title chars (see Title.php); there may be escaping/unescaping issues or those may have been resolved in the past. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Jürgen Mayer

12 Oct 12 Oct

2:46 p.m.

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Hi, I've set up a wiki about programming. When I write, for example, [[C++]] as link, this don't give me a correct link. Is this a bug or there is a solution? Thank

hi i have the same Problem :-( for example i would write: [[LF 8/6]] any solution ? greetings Juergen

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Brion Vibber

13 Oct 13 Oct

6:06 a.m.

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On Oct 12, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Jürgen Mayer wrote:

i have the same Problem :-( for example i would write: [[LF 8/6]] any solution ?

Can you be a little more specific as to what the problem is? That should work just fine. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Jamie Bliss

14 Oct 14 Oct

7:02 p.m.

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I think he means that he wants a page with a name of "LF 8/6", not a page "LF 8" and a subpage "6". To my knowledge, this inhierently impossible, unless you use escape sequences. (eg, [[LF 8\/6]], backslash then slash) On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:06:38 -0700, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

On Oct 12, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Jürgen Mayer wrote:

i have the same Problem :-( for example i would write: [[LF 8/6]] any solution ?

Can you be a little more specific as to what the problem is? That should work just fine. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Brion Vibber

7:24 p.m.

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On Oct 14, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Jamie Bliss wrote:

I think he means that he wants a page with a name of "LF 8/6", not a page "LF 8" and a subpage "6".

There's no such thing as subpages, really. "Subpages" are just a shorthand for linking between titles with a certain convention, and this is by default not enabled in the main page space. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Jamie Bliss

7:41 p.m.

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Yes, I know. Maybe this should be added to Mediazilla as an enhancement? (I know that the special characters are used internally, but maybe they should be escaped before the internal liks are done?) On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:24:13 -0700, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

On Oct 14, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Jamie Bliss wrote:

I think he means that he wants a page with a name of "LF 8/6", not a page "LF 8" and a subpage "6".

There's no such thing as subpages, really. "Subpages" are just a shorthand for linking between titles with a certain convention, and this is by default not enabled in the main page space. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Jens Ropers

8:35 p.m.

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Indeed. As regards the slashes you can create any friggin page you want, see:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_9/11

or

> http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Because_a_friend/of_a_friend/ > of_a_friend/told_me

On 14 Oct 2004, at 21:24, Brion Vibber wrote:

On Oct 14, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Jamie Bliss wrote:

I think he means that he wants a page with a name of "LF 8/6", not a page "LF 8" and a subpage "6".

There's no such thing as subpages, really. "Subpages" are just a shorthand for linking between titles with a certain convention, and this is by default not enabled in the main page space. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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