HRWiki:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)

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Revision as of 17:04, 19 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:

/

The MediaWiki software also makes no distinction between underscores and spaces in page titles, so underscores will display as spaces. 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 HRWiki. 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.