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Silverlan (talkcontribs)

I'm using mediawiki 1.23.1

By default all keywords that link to an existing subsite are automatically parsed to a link.

I know you can disable it for a specific text-area with the <nowiki></nowiki> command, however that conflicts with links in the sidebar.

I have a sub-page called "Quaternion" and want to add a link to that subpage in the sidebar.

If I add "** Quaternion|Quaternion" to the sidebar edit-page, it automatically parses it into "** [[Quaternion]]|[[Quaternion]]", which invalidates both the link and the text:

http://puu.sh/anCeQ/fc8b6d1a45.png


If I try to disable the link using "** <nowiki>Quaternion</nowiki>|<nowiki>Quaternion</nowiki>", the result is this:

http://puu.sh/anCcf/b41ae3d3cf.png


Again, with an invalid link.

What can I do to prevent this behavior?

Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)

Hello!

Maybe i missed a change, but i would say, that MediaWiki doesn't parse any strings as link automatically out of the box. That means, with a blank MediaWiki Installation without anay extensions you can save ** Quaternion|Quaternion without any problems and link parsing in MediaWiki:Sidebar. If this isn't so, then maybe an extension parses keywords to Links. Can you give a link to your Wiki or a list of Extensions you have installed?

Silverlan (talkcontribs)

My mistake, I still had the "LinkTitles" extension installed which ended up in my wiki by mistake - I removed it and it's working fine now. Thanks for the tip.

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