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Earle, I just notice that when clicking on the page title of a single word page title, you get a list of pages with that word, not just a list of pages that are linked to that page. This became obvious when clicking on the page title of WaTer. Surely that's not the preferred behaviour? -- MarkTilley

No, it's not! Looking through the code, I see it's a side-effect of the naive way searching was coded into UseModWiki - a backlinks search is a simple case-insensitive search through the entire textual content of the wiki. I've duplicated the search subroutine in question and made it case-sensitive, and now this is what'll be called when you do a backlinks search, which should eliminate the false hits:

-- EarleMartin

Thanks. Next question. Free format page names don't seem to work? e.g. [[Water]] As I recall that was the preference on SociologyWiki and I was going to change WaTer because it's UgLy. Assuming [[Water]] was the page name, I'm guessing the backlink problem would come back based on your explanation about case-sensitivity?

Yeah, at the moment I'm sticking to WikiWord format, and your guess is exactly right. If people really want free links I can consider switching them on, but I'd prefer not to for the time being. -- Earle


Yikes! Georgia! And Trebuchet, being sans-serif, was easier on my eyes. I am an old fogey, you know. I like the new '@' symbols in front of external links, though. Très cool. -- Eliz

I wondered if anyone would object, and since you have I've put it back! But there's now a second stylesheet, wiki2.css, which is only different in that it sets Georgia as the body font. If anyone wants that, they can set it in their preferences.

About the "@"s - you will have noticed that it's now changed to the "section" symbol, which has a sort of literary connotation to it which I quite like. I decided that "@" is probably not the best symbol to use as I find myself mentally reading it aloud. Cheers -- Earle

Thanks for the font. Now the text doesn't fade in and out before my eyes. Besides, Trebuchet has the same uniform thickness and roundness as the buckyball-thingie logo. Makes for a nice unified style. -- Eliz


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