Rowan Collins wrote: Hello, The doExponent() function is indeed never called. It's a simple case I added in the code just in case the community decided to use a new ^^foobar^^ syntax. At least the good point is that it provides an useful example to add a new syntax token :o) cheers, -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar

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_Nanotechnol… 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=%… (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 -- Chris Phoenix cphoenix(a)CRNano.org Director of Research Center for Responsible Nanotechnology http://CRNano.org

Thanks. You correctly identified the problem. I've now got the following rules: RewriteRule ^$ w RewriteRule ^w/stylesheets/(.*)$ path/stylesheets/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^w/images/(.*)$ path/images/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^w/(.*)$ path/index.php?title=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^w(.*)$ path/index.php$1 [L] I think my host's Apache is quite broken. [L] doesn't stop processing (but doesn't seem to hurt anything). The reason my directory is called "path" instead of "wiki" is that a rule of RewriteRule ^w(.*)$ wiki/index.php$1 [L] will be applied multiple times (because 'wiki' starts with 'w'), expanding to wiki/index.phpiki/index.phpiki/index.php... until Apache throws an error. The recommended .htaccess file on the MediaWiki pages doesn't work for this reason. When I tried to replace the final rule (with the bare w) with the rule: RewriteRule ^w?(.*)$ wiki/index.php?$1 [L] then http://wise-nano.org/w/Article served back the main page without style sheets, although all the other rules were unchanged. Go figure. The RewriteCond feature doesn't seem to work at all. But my rules seem to work OK, so the problem is "solved." Chris Brion Vibber wrote: -- Chris Phoenix cphoenix(a)CRNano.org Director of Research Center for Responsible Nanotechnology http://CRNano.org

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:17:02 -0400, Chris Phoenix <cphoenix(a)crnano.org> wrote: This can easily be solved by removing all links to or from it, setting the page to "", etc. This should update everything except the page index. (of course, this doesn't help with old versions). Also, try the url http://wise-nano.org/w?title=Is_there_a_superweapon%3F&action=delete -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail!