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    Posted by Epimetreus posts: 10

    I've done a lot of searching, and I can't find an answer to my problem with External Wiki links. It's probably something very simple staring me in the face, but ...

    I'm using the same syntax for my link to Wikipedia as presented in the ))TikiWikidoc page ((doc:ExternalWiki:

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    wp   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$page

    and yet my wiki's not sending out spaces properly. If I then put

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    ((wp:Declaration of Independence))


    in one of my wiki pages, the link directs people to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration+of+Independence, not the correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence. What am I missing? How do I get ))TikiWiki(( to properly handle spaces or punctuation the way Wikipedia does?

    Note: I'm using release 1.9.7.

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    You have to use the correct URL. Wikipedia's URLS do not include spaces. So, in your example, the URL shoudl be:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_independence

    not

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration of independence

    Your wiki link should be:

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    ((wp:Declaration_of_independence))


    HTH,

    -Rick

    > I've done a lot of searching, and I can't find an answer to my problem with External Wiki links. It's probably something very simple staring me in the face, but ...
    >
    > I'm using the same syntax for my link to Wikipedia as presented in the ))TikiWikidoc page ((doc:ExternalWiki:
    >

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    > wp   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$page
>

    > and yet my wiki's not sending out spaces properly. If I then put
    >

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    > ((wp:Declaration of Independence))
>

    >
    > in one of my wiki pages, the link directs people to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration+of+Independence, not the correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence. What am I missing? How do I get ))TikiWiki(( to properly handle spaces or punctuation the way Wikipedia does?
    >
    > Note: I'm using release 1.9.7.

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    Posted by Epimetreus posts: 10

    > You have to use the correct URL. Wikipedia's URLS do not include spaces. Your wiki link should be:

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    > ((wp:Declaration_of_independence))
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    Yeah, I saw that that worked. Seems a bit backwards, though. If I want the text of my wiki article to read, "Thomas Jefferson completed his first draft of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration of Independence" class="wiki wikinew text-danger tips">Declaration of Independence on..." instead of "Thomas Jefferson completed his first draft of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence" class="wiki wikinew text-danger tips">Declaration_of_Independence, then I have to use
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    ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence|Declaration of Independence))

    Shouldn't the external wiki function allow the site admin to specify word linking syntax as well? With the plethora of wiki engines, extwiki as written's only really useful if one's linking to external TikiWikis.

    Thanks for the help, in any case!
    Epimetreus

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    > Shouldn't the external wiki function allow the site admin to specify word linking syntax as well? With the plethora of wiki engines, extwiki as written's only really useful if one's linking to external TikiWikis.


    Intesting idea, but I think that in this case, the problem is with Wikimedia (or at least the specific Wikipedia page). If the page was named Declaration of Independence or Declaration%20of%20Independence there wouldn't be a problem.

    I belive that any link created with the ((foo)) syntax is taken to be a literal link.

    HTH,

    -Rick

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    Posted by Epimetreus posts: 10

    > Intesting idea, but I think that in this case, the problem is with Wikimedia (or at least the specific Wikipedia page). If the page was named Declaration of Independence or Declaration%20of%20Independence there wouldn't be a problem.
    > I belive that any link created with the ((foo)) syntax is taken to be a literal link.

    Thanks, Rick!
    - Epimetreus

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    Posted by Epimetreus posts: 10
    Sorry... double posted my response, and apparently don't have permissions to delete posts.
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