I had a lot of trouble with WikiNormalization in 2.4. I strongly
support the idea of removing most constraints (for instance, most
Unicode printable characters should be allowed). I support the idea
of removing duplicated spaces.
A small addition to your rules: I think it most of the time helps
to remove spaces at beginining and at end of page names.
Yes, of course. We, in fact, should be doing this right now, but
it's not been written anywhere. You can probably create a page like
that through the API or by cleverly manipulating the Edit.jsp
parameters.
May be the normalizer should be made "pluggable" with CamelCase
being one of those provided ?
Mediawiki (which powers Wikipedia) has a simple regexp for filtering
out illegal characters. At the moment it is as follows:
"The list of illegal characters is as follows: #<>[]|{}, non-
printable characters 0 through 31, and 'delete' character 127)."
Everything else is allowed in wiki names. I think that if they can
do it and have no problems, we can do it too.
My proposal, basing it on John's and Murray's input.
http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/WikiNameNormalizationProposal
One problem is links from outside applications: when you rename a
page, JspWiki renames the internal links but obviously cannot
rename external references. With all JCR and WikiNames discussions,
may I suggest to have a version number attached to a name and to
use it within a "PermaLink" URL? This version number would be the
version at which the page name was last changed (0 would indicate
the page never changed its name, none would indicate the "latest"
name for backward compatibility). A separate history of page names
would be kept and would allow to redirect external links to the
right latest page name. Does such a mechanism exist in JCR?
I am not sure whether that makes sense - if you reference Wikipedia's
article on "Motley Crue", I would assume that you would want to
reference that particular page in general, not just a version of it.
JCR uses UUIDs to reference pages, so version histories do also store
renames. If we use that feature, that is.
/Janne
