Re: Wiki problem with URLs

On Fri, Feb  1, 2013 at 12:39:42AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > So the only known fix is to hand-edit URLs to use %3D?  That doesn't
> > seem very good.  Do we need to move the TODO list somewhere else?
> 
> There are several reasons why the wiki is not a perfect fit for the
> TODO; for instance, taking out the items done as each major version gets
> released is always problematic.  Are you proposing to write a Django app
> to host the TODO?  That, I think, would be best.

Well, I guess all I am saying is that now that there are no archive URLs
being generated, e.g.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg00781.php

everything is a message-id, and many message ids (e.g. Google) have
characters that cause problems for the wiki, e.g. '='.  

I can encode '=', but there might be other characters, and other people
might not know to do that.  Also, when you don't encode '=', you don't
get any feedback that there is a problem --- that link URL just
disappears from the wiki, and not just the URL disappears but all links
and any secondary text for the item.

What I can do it cleanup what is there and try to encode '=', but I
hardly see that as a long-term solution.

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