Last modified: 2006-11-26 19:57:15 UTC
The 1st line in MediaWiki:Sidebar is both displayed in the sidebar in some skins, and used as the value in an id="xxx" html attribute. Special charactes, even spaces, can be present is the data (See sample from ksh Wikipedia below) and lead to invalid html, since id= attribute values are pretty much restricted to alfanumerics and underscore only. Solution: put the string above the side bar as-is, but use a special character filter before outputting the value of the id=attribute, as is it is done elsewhere, too. Here the data that made http://validator.w3.org/ complain. (btw. "Jangk noh" translates to "go to") *Jangk noh **mainpage|mainpage **Category:Houpschublaad|categories **randompage-url|randompage **Special:Newpages|newpages **recentchanges-url|recentchanges **currentevents-url|currentevents **portal-url|portal **sitesupport-url|sitesupport **helppage|help
Hallo! I did run into the same problem at Bug 2797: [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]] and the other navigation utilities should allow pipes, <span dir="foo" > I have seen your changes at http://ksh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=history As far as I know the usage of html entities, &#nnnn; &#xnnn; in MediaWiki messages depends on their type: wikitext, htmltext, if used inside id="foo" etc. Sometimes Unicode characters must be used but you are right they are not allowed inside id="foo". A filter would make sense. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
At some point, the values for the sidebar items stopped being message keys (which generally conform to the requirements) and started supporting literal page names and URLs.
Hallo! I suggest to mark this bug as INVALID because there should be documentation available about how to configure sidebar "properly". Please see http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar?uselang=en and http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Sidebar?uselang=en#How_does_Sidebar_work.3F.E2.80.8E I noticed another issue today: the sidebar is case sensitive: * Special:Version|version is *not* identical with * Special:Version|Version depending on what languages are using to look at the page and what messages are available in the local wiki: http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ASidebar&diff=23139&oldid=22867&uselang=ru still shows the Finish "Versio" while http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ASidebar&diff=23139&oldid=22867&uselang=ro shows rendering according to the (faulty) local MediaWiki:Version/ro best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
After modifying the content of MediaWiki:Sidebar according to comment 3 as follows: *Navigation **mainpage|mainpage **Category:Houpschublaad|categories **randompage-url|randompage ... etc. ... where MediaWiki:Navigation exists, the problem of invalid html is gone, independent of wether or not there are spaces or special characters in the contents of MediaWiki:Navigation. I am setting this bug to WONTFIX since there is indeed no real need (though it would not hurt...) Yet the sidebar config needs to be more clearly documented, see bug 6118.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7623 ***
