Re: The first solution
hello azarober, I'm glad to see your basketball project is further progressing.
http://www.ebawords.com/W can work if renaming the file "_htaccess" in your Tiki's root directory to ".htaccess" triggers Apache rewriting (obviously this depends on your web server being Apache, and if it is configured for this path rewriting). At themes.tw.o, where I did a test, this worked.
About the external link icon (
), you can turn it off on the Admin Wiki page.
About the % sign in the page name, that is a "reserved character" in URLs so if it is in a wiki name (and thus a URL), it will be replaced in addresses with "%25". (Coincidentally, the character you want to use as content is the same character that is used as a prefix in the encoding scheme.) I did a test, naming a page "W-L%". When requested by a browser, the document name automatically gets modified with "%25" replacing the original "%". So your page names will be OK, but there will be what appears to be an "extra" 25 in the URL itself. This should be OK, shouldn't it? But I didn't check about when things are added to the URL such as language preference, etc.
-- Gary
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