making a #hash of things...

[Gene]

I re-noticed that we've got some pages on Oakland Wiki that start with a hash or number sign, '#'. Unfortunately, since this means something in HTML (anchor target), when there's a link to one of those pages it doesn't work. For example, you can't go to the page https://oaklandwiki.org/#oakmtg because it's interpreted as an anchor target on the home page.

I'm not sure if there's a plan to deal with this. Disallowing # would be no fun, but auto-mapping # to the Unicode equivalent or something might make it so you couldn't use anchors as part of a link. Thoughts?

gene

[Mike Linksvayer]

English Wikipedia simply omits the # from page title, and uses a template (but that's just a convenience/implementation detail/not necessary) to indicate full title at the top of each affected article, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YesAllWomen

I think that's just fine (as opposed to no fun :)).

Mike

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[Gene Anderson]

That'd work. The code for (re-)naming pages should disallow # in the name, then. And I don't know how to get to the pages that have already been named that way like #oakmtg...

gene

[Mike Linksvayer]

https://oaklandwiki.org/%23oakmtg

But IMO makes sense to disallow # in page titles, as accessing resulting page is rather non-intuitive.

Mike

[Mike Linksvayer]

Sorry, meant to also say: if allowed (as now), the localwiki software ought to be urlencoding all article links so that they work internally, even if there's no intuitive way to type them in.

[Gene Anderson]

Especially since you need to change to %23 for each step of the process (i.e., _edit, _rename, etc.)

gene

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Mike Linksvayer <m...@gondwanaland.com> wrote:

[Julio Rios]

We noticed last night that LW doesn't handle # when it is in the middle of a page title either.  For example, I don't know how to access the pages for Unknown Officer #5, etc.

https://localwiki.org/oakland/tags/policemisconduct

[Gene Anderson]

I renamed those pages to remove the #.

If you need to do it for other pages, copy the URL of the page in question, paste it into the address bar, change "#" to "%23", and append "/_rename".

e.g., https://oaklandwiki.org/Unknown_Officer_%235/_rename

gene

[Julio Rios]

I forgot to say: Thanks for fixing these Gene!