Hello,
I need to put a square bracket `]` in the title of a page of my wiki. Of course I can't do that directly, otherwise when I write a link to that page I'll have something like [[ ...].. ]], and the parser will misunderstood me.
I this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
I can read i should use something like ]. I can guess that 93 is the ASCII code for `]`, but just putting ] instead of `]` didn't change nothing.
How can I do?
Thankyou in advance.
Best regards, Giovanni Gherdovich
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giovanni gherdovich wrote:
Hello,
I need to put a square bracket `]` in the title of a page of my wiki.
That character is reserved as it's part of the link markup, so cannot be used in page titles.
You might try the 'displaytitle' magic keyword (may not work quite properly, not sure if there's documentation).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hello,
That character is reserved as it's part of the link markup, so cannot be used in page titles.
Oh.. Well, I misanderstood the article in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Links_and_URLs
actually, there is explained how to make a link to an URL that we want to name with `]`, like
[http://natural.com the ][|atural site]
(wich I didn't understand, anyway.)
So I have two question now:
1) How to make a link to an URL whose named contains a `]`, like in the example above, using ]
2) How to obtain the mathematical symbols described here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mathematical_symbols
like &isin. I tried to write `&isin` in my wiki, but I didn't get what I want.
Thankyou in advance Giovanni Gherdovich
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giovanni gherdovich wrote:
- How to obtain the mathematical symbols described
here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mathematical_symbols
like &isin. I tried to write `&isin` in my wiki, but I didn't get what I want.
Small, but important: '∈' not '&isin'. HTML-Entities need semicolon (;) at the end. HTH
Swen
Thankyou Swen for replying.
Your advice was very important. I had to lough a little watching your answer rendered in the Nabble environment with Firefox:
http://www.nabble.com/%60-%60-in-page-title-tf2606348.html
Anyway, after some experiments I see that I can't cheat with MediaWiki with tricks like this:
[[The closed interval [0,1]]]
and I can't put any kind of brackets in a page-title:
[[The fractional part is {x}]]
The parser reject this stuff. But this (the first example I gave) is against what I read in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Links_and_URLs (to find what I mean, type CTRL+f in that page and search for ] )
!!!
Best regards, Giovanni Gherdovich
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giovanni gherdovich wrote:
hu, this is not my posting any more :-) It is a interpretation of my posting :-))
[[The fractional part is {x}]]
This is a wiki-internal link. The characters #, <, >, [, ], |, { and } are not allowed in page titles. Please have a look at "$wgLegalTitleChars" and read more here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name#Special_characters
But this (the first example I gave) is against what I read in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Links_and_URLs (to find what I mean, type CTRL+f in that page and search for ] )
This is a text about external (non-wiki) links. Please have a look at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2141#section-2.4. "[" is an excluded character and must be %encoded:
In Mediawiki: [http://www.google.com/fg%5Dtest.htm] my Browser try to find: http://www.google.com/fg%5Dtest.htm and Google answers: "The requested URL |/fg%5Dtest.htm| was not found on this server."
HTH
Swen
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