Thread:Project:Support desk/I created a page with a + in the page title, and it went nuts.

So I created a page with a + in the page title, and now it's acting all weird. For reference, the wiki is the Majesty: Heroes of Ardania Wiki, and relevant pages include Mithril Breastplate +4, Mithril Breastplate 4, and Mithril Breastplate

The whole process is described decently on the Mithril Breastplate +4 discussion page, but here's a summary: The wiki is for a separate game, with separate developers. An item in the game is named "Mithril Breastplate +4". I noticed that we had the information for that item listed on the page "Mithril Breastplate". The game had recently gone through a major revamp, and so I thought they had changed the name of the item, or we just made the page wrong; so I moved the page to "Mithril Breastplate +4". However, it seems that either my browser or MediaWiki does something weird when you put "+" (or it's equivalent "%2B") in the URL. Since it does that whenever it's even in the URL bar, that makes it difficult to fix; the 'move' page changes it to "Mithril Breastplate 4", and then you're trying to move an entirely different page (that was at the time empty), so I wasn't even able to undo the change... as such, since the redirect from Mithril Breastplate to Mithril Breastplate +4 seemed to work just fine, I just added the same redirect to Mithril Breastplate 4 as a temporary fix. Likewise, pretty much any attempt at accessing "Talk:Mithril Breastplate +4" sent you to "Talk:Mithril Breastplate 4", so I added a redirect from the latter to the former, again as a temporary fix. (All in all, this has been a rather weird experience with the... software? Client? I don't even know what to call it, my brain is frazzled.)

Is there a way to either keep MediaWiki from spazzing out when it sees a + in the URL, or to move "Mithril Breastplate +4" back to "Mithril Breastplate" (we could handle it being named slightly wrong if we needed to), or otherwise undo the move that I made from "Mithril Breastplate" to "Mithril Breastplate +4"? (I myself am not the owner of the wiki or a SysOp, so there are some changes I can't make, but I may be able to tell the owner so that he can make the needed changes if it's something I can't do.)

Thanks for any help you can give on this odd situation! Will the Spellcaster 10:27, 18 July 2011 (UTC)