Re: [Wikitech-l] Page title length

[Élie Roux]

Reposted to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_title_size_limitations .


Thank you very much Nathan, Brion and Daniel for your research and good 
advices!


It seems indeed more complex that I naively thought, but I'll try to 
make the changes you advised soon, keeping track of everything so that a 
good recipe can be written.


Should I open a bugreport about this?

Thank you,
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Elie

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[Wikitech-l] Page title length

[Élie Roux]

Dear MediaWiki developers,

I'm responsible for the development of a new Wiki that will contain many 
Tibetan resources. Traditionnaly, Tibetan titles of books or even parts 
of books are extremely long, as you can see for instance here : 
http://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W23922, and sometimes too long for Mediawiki, 
for instance the title of


http://www.tbrc.org/?locale=bo#library_work_ViewByOutline-O01DG1049094951|W23922

, which is

ཤངས་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་གཞུང་བཀའ་ཕྱི་མ་རྣམས་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་བསྒྲིལ་བའི་ཕྱག་ལེན་བདེ་ཆེན་སྙེ་མའི་ཆུན་པོ་

. This title is around 90 Tibetan characters, but each caracter being 3 
bytes, it exceeds the limit for title length of 256 bytes that MediaWiki 
has.


So I have two questions:

1. If I change this limit to 1023 in the structure of the database 
('page_title' field of the 'page' base), will other things (such as 
search engine) break? Is there a way to change it more cleanly?


2. Could I propose you to make this limit 1023 instead of 255 (or to 
make it configurable easily)? This would allow at least 256 characters 
(even for asian languages) instead of 256 bytes, which seems more 
consistant with the fact that MediaWiki is well internationalized.


Thank you in advance,
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Elie

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