Attention to the Wiki Admin(s) please

[Jay911]

Hello,

Earlier this year I discovered a problem in the counties for Alberta in that several of them have a 'number sign' in their names. This causes grief when trying to load the wiki pages for those counties, because the wiki markup language, like HTML, considers the # to be a bookmark reference and tries to go to, for example, bookmark '2 County (AB)' on page 'Special Area', instead of page 'Special Area #2 County (AB)'.

I put in a request in August or so via Mantis to have the number signs stripped from these three counties, but action has yet to be taken. In the meantime, I'm resolving the situation by creating the "Special Area" page that the "Wiki" link in the RRDB lands on, with redirection instructions as such: Special Area - The RadioReference Wiki

As you can see I've added the disambiguation tag to the page. If this needs any modification, please let me know.

Of course, the page will become redundant and likely orphaned once the county names have been fixed in the RRDB. I'll try to remember to report it when that happens.

 

[ka3jjz]

Unfortunately the issues caused by the number sign are not something that the admins can address. This is very likely something integral to MediaWiki (since as you say, it's used as a bookmark function) - in which case Lindsay would have to write an escape to allow that in a title.

As an interim solution, you could use an abbreviation for number such as 'NBR.', which I've seen in a number of other cases.

As for orphans, our policy is clear - please blank the page and let W9RXR or Bezking know. They, along with Lindsay, are the only ones with the permissions required to actually delete a page.

Thanks for letting us know about the number sign issue, in any case. Mike

 

[Jay911]

There doesn't need to be "nbr" or similar. It's just fine without the number sign or any other indication that the character following is a number. "Special Area 2" is adequate.

The issue is, apparently, getting the RRDB updated to remove it....