I found the question to my own answer in a previous email to this list. The answer is at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowDisplayTitle. {{DISPLAYTITLE:Foo}} in the page can be used to set the page title.
________________________________ From: Eric K <ek79...@yahoo.com> To: "mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org" <mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 7:45 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Links with (, ), :, ' - break all the time If anyone on an external site posts a link to our wiki, the link will often break if it has spaces, brackets, apostrophes, colons, e.g.: input, output rendered as: input: www.mywiki.com/wiki/don't speakoutput: www.mywiki.com/wiki/don [breaks at the apostrophe] Or: input: www.mywiki.com/wiki/orange (fruit) output: www.mywiki.com/wiki/orange (fruit [breaks at a bracket] And so on. The links break and I am not able to do anything. Sometimes I email webmasters telling them to fix their rendering software but this doesn't achieve anything. There are 100's if not 1000s of incorrect rendering software routines, which are just not used to treating brackets, spaces, apostrophes and other characters correctly. I no longer want to use these characters in the article name anymore. For internal wiki links, I can do [[dontspeak|Don't Speak (song)]] and deal with having the article URL different from the title for some articles. That is perfectly fine because my higher priority is to prevent broken links and prevent losing site visitors who could not arrive at the correct link. How this would work is, I would probably set the Title in a separate tag, e.g. I would create: - www.mywiki.com/wiki/dontspeak And on that page, I would have something like: <title>Don't Speak (song)</title> This would be the H1 for that page where the title is usually found. This way people get everything they need:- a working URL that wont break on other websites and forums - a title that can be any number of characters long. Does anything exist that does this, and if not, any suggestions on how to get this done would be appreciated. Please note, I'm not talking about sorting categories. This is about the title of the page and its URL and for some pages I want these to be different from each other. I see the HTML code for that heading is: - <h1 id="firstHeading" So maybe I would overwrite that H1 tag with that ID with my own title, or something like that. I don't know if its possible. thanks Erik _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
