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links in the sidebar
I couldn't help but notice that the link in the sidebar that refers to
today's date doesn't have the spaces escaped. So, instead of clicking
through to "http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/May+21", you go to
"http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/May 21,2002", which puts you at
"http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/May". Perhaps this was intentional...

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"Jason C. Richey" <jasonr@bomis.com>
Re: links in the sidebar [ In reply to ]
On mar, 2002-05-21 at 12:15, Jason Richey wrote:
> I couldn't help but notice that the link in the sidebar that refers to
> today's date doesn't have the spaces escaped. So, instead of clicking
> through to "http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/May+21", you go to
> "http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/May 21,2002", which puts you at
> "http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/May". Perhaps this was intentional...

Oh, that whole thing is broken, broken, broken.

* Doesn't fit article naming conventions and no one wants such pages
* Not URL-escaped (the space can break on some browsers)
* No path! (Thus doesn't work from http://www.wikipedia.com/ or
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?blahblahblah)

I've taken the liberty of removing it from wikiSkinStandard.php.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)