[Mediawiki-l] Internal link with query string?

[Daniel Barrett]

You can see $1 used in [[MediaWiki:Noexactmatch]] :

  '''There is no page titled "$1".''' You can [[:$1|create this page]].

DanB

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Wilson
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Internal link with query string?

When would $1 get evaluated?  Who's evaluating $1?  Where does the value
for
$1 come from?

I take it you don't mean {{{1}}} the Template parameter.

-- Jim

On 5/7/07, Daniel Barrett <danb at vistaprint.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas how to produce (reliably) an internal

> link with a query string?
>
> Attempt 1:
>
> [[Special:Foobar?arg=$1|new special page]]
>
> This fails as http://mywiki.com/wiki/Special:Foobar%3Farg%3D%241.
>
> Attempt 2:
>
> [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Foobar?arg=$1 new special page]
>
> This produces an incorrect when $1 contains whitespace: only the first

> word of $1 is in the link.
>
> Attempt 3:
>
> [[{{fullurl:Special:Foobar|arg=$1}}]]
>
> This fails for the same reason as attempt #2.
>
> Attempt 4:
>
> Try urlencoding "$1" to avoid the whitespace problem:
>
> [[{{fullurl:Special:Foobar|arg={{urlencode:$1}}}}]]
>
> This fails because {{urlencode}} is evaluated before $1, so the 
> literal string "$1" gets urlencoded, rather than the expanded $1.
>
> Any other ideas? Or is this impossible?
>
> Thanks,
> DanB
>
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