Ah, looks like "$1" is probably a PHP dependency. From includes/SpecialSearch.php:
$wgOut->addWikiText( wfMsg( 'noexactmatch', wfEscapeWikiText( $term ) ) );
What I need is the search term being passed to the special search page. I don't know another way to get this value using only wikitext. I suppose I could modify the above source line to escape space characters....
DanB
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Barrett Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 4:16 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Internal link with query string?
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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