HRWiki:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)
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Revision as of 02:20, 12 November 2004
Some article titles cannot be named correctly due to software limitations.
Before the opening paragraph of the article, insert {{Template:wrongtitle|title=correct title}}. This will produce the text:
- The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is correct title.
For a list of articles which are subject to these limitations, see Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Wrongtitle.
Excluded characters
The following characters are not allowed in page titles:
# + < > [ ] | { } &
The following character is allowed but is impossible to link if it is the first character of the title:
/
For example the article on the Strong Bad Email DVD, named "strongbad_email.exe" is currently at "strongbad email.exe".
Non-MediaWiki limitations
The following limitations aren't due to the MediaWiki software but to the settings of the English language Wikipedia. See the appropriate policy pages.
Latin-1
Characters not in the ISO Latin-1 character set have not been possible in the English language Wikipedia. Most wikis have been converted to support UTF-8 and partial conversion of this one is complete. The remaining limitations are largely due to the amount of time the wiki would have to be offline to complete the work - about 12-24 hours using the method used to convert others. It's expected to be completed incrementally as circumstances allow.
Lowercase first letter
Unlike Wikipedia, the Homestar Runner Wiki is set to accept a lowercase character as the first letter of a page title.
