[Mediawiki-l] Deleting article with ? in title

Jamie Bliss astronouth7303 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 19:43:10 UTC 2004


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:17:02 -0400, Chris Phoenix <cphoenix at crnano.org> wrote:
> [cut]
> 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.
> [cut]

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

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