Broken URL types & better templating

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How do you escape () in a URL?

Broken URL types & better templating

andrewdoull 1210546620|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,

I've just started setting up a wiki and I've discovered several problems with the WikiDot syntax I haven't been able to resolve.

1. If I want to create an entry that has a : in it (Such as 'Infinity: The Quest for Earth'), how do I escape this correctly without creating a new category.

2. URL links containing a right bracket don't work e.g. linking to a wikipedia entry like [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(computer_game) Rogue] breaks. How do I escape these (hint @@ doesn't work).

3. The whole category/templating system feels very limited compared to MediaWiki. I don't want to have to rewrite an entry every time I create a template - I just want to specify variables that I can drop into the template. I also don't want to have to specify that an entry uses a template by forcing the entry to be game:Rogue everywhere I want to link to Rogue that happens to use the game template, it would be much easier to have to do this on the destination page, so I can just reference it as Rogue elsewhere.

e.g. the MediaWiki equivalent is:

Infobox VG| title = The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
| image = [Cover art.gif|256px]
| developer = [[Bethesda Softworks]]
| publisher = Bethesda Softworks
| designer =
| series = ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]''
| engine = [[XnGine]]
| released = {{vgrelease|NA=[[August 31]], [[1996]]vgrelease|EU=1996
| genre = First-person [[computer role-playing game]]
| modes = [[Single player]]
| ratings = [[ESRB]]: M
| platforms = [[MS-DOS]]
| media = [[CD-ROM]]
| requirements =
| input =
}}

4. How do you handle soft redirects e.g.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Daggerfall)

Thanks in advance. There are other decisions that you guys have made that are completely on the money (Google Analytics integration being one).

Andrew

Re: Broken URL types & better templating

Helmuti_pdorf 1210582276|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I do not understand all questions i think - but I will try to reply:

1) use a specifi and clear "category" for such naming problems.

Example: default:Ininity: The Quest for Earth this will create a page with the url:

http://your-site-name.wikidot.com/default:infinity:the-quest-for-earth

1.1) and change the title of the page to "Infinity: The Quest for Earth" - at the beginning only the partial name before the colon uis taken ( Infinity) …
1.2) every link (@[[[default:infinity:the-quest-for-earth]]]) should have the complete long name used..

2) the broken URL :

if you get problems with such special characters you have to specify the url with the %-sign and the (hex!- equivalent of ansi) chacracter-code instead of such special characters.
Your Example:

[*//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(computer_game) Rogue] will not work because of the "ending" brackets.

test: [*//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(computer_game) Rogue]

If you detect such unusable characters than you should replace the character ")" with "%29"

[*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(computer_game%29 Rogue]

Rogue

3) I do not understand the question….

4) redirects are normal in wkidot - search for it in the syntax or modules or solutions … only the problem you will get if you wnat to edit the redirected page itself - than you have to use the url adress with a specific namung convention.

[http://www.wikidot.com/doc:redirect-module]

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Re: Broken URL types & better templating

Helmuti_pdorf 1210583106|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

about the question 3:
Have a look on the discussion about a technic to do such tricky usages:

[http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-58403/if-then-else-conditionals]

Another tricky discussions was here:

[http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-58448/invisible-parameters-in-infoboxes]

Hope i have understand your question…

Re: Broken URL types & better templating

andrewdoull 1210983840|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. Its not clear anywhere in the basic documentation how to do includes as discussed in the links you've referred to - maybe that should be revised some how.

Regards,

Andrew Doull

Re: Broken URL types & better templating

andrewdoull 1210984304|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,

Just to confirm what I mean: the include functionality needs to be explicitly documented on the template page. The hero examples listed to are great, but since I cannot edit these pages, I cannot see the source code required to implement it. And therefore there is no point linking to the examples.

Andrew