Markup spec/BNF/Article title

The definitions on this page use some elements defined in Markup spec/BNF/Fundamental elements.

Canonical article title
The canonical article title is the version stored in the database. It has stricter rules about what it can contain than , which can be used in page markup and other situations but must be converted to a canonical title for most other uses.


 * There is not a native concept of subpages in MediaWiki. That's a cute add-on extra, and no such things is enforced in titles. --Brion VIBBER 04:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The reason I have added them is so that when it comes to translating between forms we will need to be able to refer to the sub-page element (e.g. when generating the links list at the top of the page in HTML, or when converting a relative wiki-link to a canonical page title). --HappyDog 13:49, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Article title
This is the description of an article title, as used in links and other similar situations. It must be converted to a  for most other uses though. The structure is basically the same as , except for the final page-char terminals.