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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/title.txt b/docs/title.txt index b404bd3c..5d9bd417 100644 --- a/docs/title.txt +++ b/docs/title.txt @@ -35,9 +35,14 @@ and the colon is just removed. Note that because of these rules, it is possible to have articles with colons in their names. "E. Coli 0157:H7" is a valid title, as is "2001: A Space Odyssey", because "E. Coli 0157" and "2001" are not valid -interwikis or namespaces. Likewise, ":de:name" is a link to -the article "de:name"--even though "de" is a valid interwiki, -the initial colon stops all prefix matching. +interwikis or namespaces. + +It is not possible to have an article whose bare name includes +a namespace or interwiki prefix. + +An initial colon in a title listed in wiki text may however +suppress special handling for interlanguage links, image links, +and category links. Character mapping rules: Once prefixes have been stripped, the rest of the title processed this way: spaces and underscores are @@ -64,9 +69,9 @@ lowercase. The namespace will use underscores when returned alone; it will use spaces only when attached to the text title. getArticleID() needs some explanation: for "internal" articles, -it should return the "cur_id" field if the article exists, else +it should return the "page_id" field if the article exists, else it returns 0. For all external articles it returns 0. All of the IDs for all instances of Title created during a request are -cached, so they can be looked up wuickly while rendering wiki +cached, so they can be looked up quickly while rendering wiki text with lots of internal links. |