Last modified: 2011-10-25 13:18:14 UTC
When creating an input box for a page title containing a ' character (' / %27) using the FULLPAGENAME special word, the page title is truncated to this character with an ampersand at the end. Using FULLPAGENAMEE or urlencode:FULLPAGENAME instead of FULLPAGENAME doesn't help and mediawiki show en error message about bad page title. See [http://fr.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:Livre_d%27or&oldid=327714 template on french wikibooks] I will not recommend using this extension until this major bug has been fixed. It a major bug because the ' character is used in many languages. It also need to be tested with other characters like (. ! ? & _ ...), accented letters (é à ...).
Also using #tag:inputbox doesn't help.
sounds like bug 16474, because FULLPAGENAME returns Modèle:Livre d'or and the # is interpreted as anchor and the title is truncated, see http://fr.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le%3ALivre+d%26%2339%3Bor With FULLPAGENAMEE or urlencode the ampersand in the title gets urlencode twice and that gives a bad title.
It looks to me like inputbox needs to be more cleanly validating/interpreting its input. Title::newFromText() will happily decode the ''' from the escaped input string into a single apostrophe, which can then be output cleanly into the form parameters where we need the more canonical version.
*** Bug 15564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Using {{#tag:nowiki}} around the the PAGENAME (but not PAGENAMEE) seems to be a workaround. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Transcribe&action=edit
I used the {{#tag:nowiki}} with FULLPAGENAME to include the namespace too: The workaround is OK. Thanks for finding this workaround.
Fixed in r100694. (probably won't hit wikimedia wikis for a while yet though) p.s. that's a cool idea for a work around.
