On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Élie Roux <elie.r...@telecom-bretagne.eu>wrote:
> 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 <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<http://www.tbrc.org/?locale=bo#library_work_ViewByOutline-O01DG1049094951%7CW23922> > > , which is > > ཤངས་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་གཞུང་བཀའ་**ཕྱི་མ་རྣམས་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་བསྒྲི** > ལ་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, > -- > Elie > Wouldn't ar.title, log_title, rc_title, and so on also need to have their sizes increased? I didn't see any bug report proposing an increase in page title size, although there was this one about comment size. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4715 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
