[Mediawiki-l] Cannot add new articles via Go/Search; search WikiPEDIA?

[Brion Vibber]

Rob Church wrote:
> On 06/06/06, Sy Ali <sy1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Regarding the colon, I'm seeing the same thing when doing:
>>
>> search for it using [http://www.google.com/search?q=$1 Google]
> 
> The colon's needed so that if someone searches for [[Category:Foo]],
> it doesn't fuck up and try to put the message page in a category.
> 
> As of MediaWiki 1.7, there's a second option, $2, passed to the
> nogomatch message, which has the search term sans colon, for pretty
> formatting purposes.

The colon belongs in the message text, not in the parameter.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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