Last modified: 2005-12-11 19:59:45 UTC
Some characetrs are not allowed in page names. For example, "#" and "|" are not allowed at all, and "/" is not allowed at the beginning of a page name. See [[en:Wikipedia: Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)]] and the corresponding talk page for a (probably inaccurate) description of the problem and some workarounds. In the case of some problematic characters, numeric entity references can be used. For example, [[foo#bar]] is a link to anchor "bar" within page "foo", while [[foo#bar]] is a link to page "foo#bar". However, this does not always work. For example, attempts to use [[foo|bar] ] (representing a link that contains the pipe character) result in badly formed HTML output, and attempts to distinguish between space and underline using   and _ seem to result in both characters being mapped to an underline in the URL but a space in the displayed title. Please make the behaviour consistent (preferably in a way that is as useful as possible), and document it. I suspect that doing this right will need a real parser, but that fixing the | (pipe) bug will be easier.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 337 ***
Hallo! I will reopen the bug (remove the DUPLICATE relation) and mark this bug as INVALID because "#", "|" and "some" characters are not allowed in page titles. There should be *no way* to generate such titles. Sorry! An "escape syntax" to generate such titles would create lots of other problem. What Alan experienced is no longer the case. The actual "escaping" behaviour can be seen at http://yi.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=project:bugzilla/00033&oldid=6887#bugzilla:00462 It includes both Alans method *and* escaping with <nowiki> </nowiki>. The sections #b1 and #b2 show that the "escaped" generation of "foo|bar" does not render properly. I open another bug and will mention this at bug 337. Changing Component to "Page rendering". I can only test actual verions at MediaWiki foundations wiki's and Brion's testwiki and have no idea about relation to various other supported versions. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
(In reply to comment #2) > The sections #b1 and #b2 show that the "escaped" generation of "foo|bar" does > not render properly. I open another bug and will mention this at bug 337. opened Bug 4250: Escaped generation of [[foo|bar]] does not render properly
