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 MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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 <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> To: Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>om>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 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 <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>om>: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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 <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> To: Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>om>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 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 <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>om>: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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 <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> To: Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>om>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 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 <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>om>: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l