I sent such a fix to wikitech-l yesterday, but since I believe LDC's the one who orignally set up Apache & co on the server I left it to him to recompile it with the same set of options plus the fix. If he doesn't do it soon, I may go ahead anyway.

Ah, I understand now; in fact, I just sent you mail asking if that was in fact your intention (i.e., to recompile Apache with your patch). I'll do that on my server so we can test it a bit.

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2. Ban '&' from article titles to simplify our lives. While it

is true that '&' is _legal_ in a url, there's no reason we have to use it, other than usability for articles like 'AT&T'.

That's cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I agree; "&" is far too useful to give up. I wanted it enough that I thought the original code's double-encoding scheme was worth the hassle. If Brion's latest fix can let us have our cake and eat it too, so much the better.