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 * 04:59, 28 November 2005 User:Rspeer m (→Variables PAGENAME and PAGENAMEE - oops, missed a quote. Also unbold the big honking URLs.)
 * 04:57, 28 November 2005 User:Rspeer (Inaccurate: many of these characters _are_ allowed, and used, in page titles. The security objection must have been dealt with long ago.)
 * 04:53, 28 November 2005 User:Rspeer (→Special characters - rm obsolete statement)
 * 04:50, 28 November 2005 User:Rspeer (→Variables PAGENAME and PAGENAMEE - clean up, remove references to deleted pages)
 * 03:46, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 06:27, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 03:28, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 18:31, 29 August 2005 User:12.145.63.151 (→Canonical form)
 * 13:49, 29 August 2005 User:Tsca m (→Case-sensitivity of the first character - +pl)
 * 01:29, 23 August 2005 User:Cspurrier (rv blanking)
 * 01:08, 23 August 2005 User:69.179.172.165
 * 01:07, 23 August 2005 User:69.179.172.165 (→Canonical form)
 * 10:41, 19 August 2005 User:Spacebirdy m (→Case-sensitivity of the first character)
 * 16:13, 11 August 2005 User:Mindspillage (rm test)
 * 15:30, 11 August 2005 User:67.105.167.150 (→Restrictions)
 * 15:29, 11 August 2005 User:67.105.167.150 (→Restrictions)
 * 13:55, 10 July 2005 User:Joloc
 * 13:34, 10 July 2005 User:62.83.47.120
 * 13:29, 10 July 2005 User:62.83.47.120
 * 07:34, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Special characters - *w:en:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions))
 * 07:32, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - *w:en:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions))
 * 15:52, 12 June 2005 User:Angela m (Reverted edits by 195.29.51.147 to last version by Patrick)
 * 14:12, 12 June 2005 User:195.29.51.147
 * 10:43, 11 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Variables PAGENAME and PAGENAMEE)
 * 10:42, 11 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Variables PAGENAME and PAGENAMEE)
 * 10:37, 11 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Variables PAGENAME and PAGENAMEE)
 * 10:31, 11 June 2005 User:Patrick (Within localurl, &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt; should be used in the first part (because it is converted by localurl), or &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt; in the second part, see [[Help:ĀāĆćĎďĒēĜĝĤĥĨĩĴĵ)
 * 09:28, 11 June 2005 User:Gangleri (→Variables PAGENAME and PAGENAMEE - +See its usage at a page with converted characters at Help:ĀāĆćĎďĒēĜĝĤĥĨĩĴĵĹĺŃń and PAGENAMEE)
 * 21:18, 10 June 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 209.186.82.130 to last version by Patrick)
 * 20:39, 10 June 2005 User:209.186.82.130
 * 15:26, 8 June 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 200.90.222.143 to last version by Patrick)
 * 15:00, 8 June 2005 User:200.90.222.143
 * 01:16, 5 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Alphabetical order - )
 * 01:05, 5 June 2005 User:Brion VIBBER (→Maximum page name length)
 * 00:06, 5 June 2005 User:Patrick (The maximum page name length is 255 characters)
 * 09:25, 4 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Alphabetical order)
 * 09:14, 4 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Alphabetical order)
 * 08:55, 4 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Alphabetical order)
 * 13:03, 3 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Alphabetical order - See also collating.)
 * 15:27, 2 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Alphabetical order -Most foreign and other special characters come at the end, see e.g. de:Special:Allpages/Zz.)
 * 22:59, 1 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Alphabetical order - See also bugzilla:164.)
 * 08:48, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (one cannot link to a page with a given name on a project with a different $wgScript.)
 * 08:45, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (idea for feature request: Most needs for conversion are covered by these, but e.g. in a template one cannot link a page with a given name to the corresponding page on a project with a differen)
 * 08:15, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Conversion of spaces to underscores and of special characters to escape codes)
 * 08:12, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (There is no feature for just conversion of spaces to underscores and of special characters to escape codes, but there are two features for doing this in combimation with something else: localurl and P)
 * 19:21, 15 May 2005 User:Mxn (→Case-sensitivity of the first character - +vi:)
 * 13:06, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Canonical form)
 * 13:03, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Canonical form)
 * 13:00, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Canonical form)
 * 12:40, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Canonical form)
 * 12:39, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (==Canonical form==restore)
 * 12:34, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Case where the first character is case-insensitive - move part to other section)
 * 12:33, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Canonical form)
 * 12:29, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Canonical form - moved from other section)
 * 12:22, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Canonical form)
 * 12:20, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Ignored spaces/underscores)
 * 12:12, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Case where the first character is case-insensitive)
 * 12:10, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Case where the first character is case-insensitive)
 * 12:06, 11 May 2005 User:Patrick (A redirect is an exception: the saved page shows the canonical form of the target, even though the preview renders the link in the usual way, compare [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babel)
 * 13:06, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity)
 * 13:03, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity)
 * 12:19, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (for this page &quot;Help:Page_name&quot; with an underscore. Alternative names for this page (on most projects) are Help:page name, help:Page name, and help:page name, but not Help:Page Name; t)
 * 12:09, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (The canonical form of a page name is shown in large font as page header. Another type of canonical form is what is in URLs generated by the system.)
 * 23:10, 22 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity of the first character -wikt:nl:Sjabloon:H:f and wikt:nl:Sjabloon:h:f.)
 * 09:24, 22 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity of the first character - rm tokipona)
 * 09:13, 22 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity of the first character)
 * 17:01, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile (h:h)
 * 17:00, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile (→See also - h:f)
 * 07:16, 18 April 2005 User:Jni m (rv. to version by Patrick)
 * 01:20, 17 April 2005 User:203.218.11.21
 * 01:11, 17 April 2005 User:203.218.11.21 (Cheung wai-tsz)
 * 12:32, 15 April 2005 User:Patrick (With regard to using the prefix of the project itself there is no consistency: a name like en:a cannot be used on en: (try w:en:a and w:en:en:a), while &quot;Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!&quot; can)
 * 12:18, 15 April 2005 User:Patrick (Thus e.g. an article about the album &quot;Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!&quot; can not have that exact name. An attempt to create the article, whether by a link Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! or a)
 * 00:39, 13 April 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 68.196.170.32 to last version by Jni)
 * 19:46, 12 April 2005 User:68.196.170.32
 * 19:46, 12 April 2005 User:68.196.170.32
 * 13:57, 11 April 2005 User:Jni m (rv. anon)
 * 13:14, 11 April 2005 User:158.193.85.186
 * 12:43, 23 March 2005 User:62.241.2.2 (→Special characters)
 * 12:43, 23 March 2005 User:62.241.2.2
 * 02:06, 3 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity of the first character)
 * 02:01, 3 March 2005 User:Patrick m (→Case-sensitivity of the first character)
 * 01:59, 3 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity of the first character - update)
 * 02:54, 15 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (→See also - +ja)
 * 16:29, 11 February 2005 User:YebisYa (→Special characters - article --&gt; page)
 * 10:11, 11 February 2005 User:Patrick (re:talk:Depending on the namespace and the settings a forward slash in the pagename provides special functionality, see subpages.)
 * 16:48, 9 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (→Prefixes referring to other projects or pseudo-namespaces - colon)
 * 16:02, 9 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (→Special characters - two dots)
 * 23:44, 7 February 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - English is not another language and is already linked on the next line (Wikipedia))
 * 16:11, 7 February 2005 User:YebisYa (The template tag &quot;hi&quot; is replaced by &quot;hh&quot;, and &quot;handbook sidebar&quot; is added.)
 * 07:52, 7 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (The parameter &quot;langs&quot; in the templete &quot;hc&quot;)
 * 22:54, 5 February 2005 User:81.173.162.9 (→Prefixes referring to other projects or pseudo-namespaces - minor edit)
 * 22:52, 5 February 2005 User:81.173.162.9 (→Special characters - corrected wording)
 * 21:37, 4 February 2005 User:Netoholic m (→Variables &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt; and &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;)
 * 10:00, 15 October 2004 User:Qbaa80 (→Special characters)
 * 09:59, 15 October 2004 User:Qbaa80 (→Special characters)
 * 09:59, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Case where the first character is case-insensitive)
 * 09:56, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 09:51, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 09:51, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Case-sensitivity of the first character)
 * 09:45, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 09:26, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity of the first character)
 * 15:19, 11 September 2004 User:Nyxos ([add] '+' characters are replaced by spaces (underscores) in page titles)
 * 07:53, 15 August 2004 User:Patrick (Variables and )
 * 08:39, 9 August 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 07:16, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→See also -not quite accurate: &lt;nowiki&gt;:de:name&lt;/nowiki&gt; does not give a page with the name de:name.)
 * 07:01, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/docs/title.doc?rev=1.1.1.1&amp;view=markup)
 * 21:52, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Spaces vs. underscores)
 * 21:50, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Variable &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;)
 * 20:51, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Variable &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt; -Thus not an underscore but a space is used. This can give problems using it in a URL for an external link, e.g.:)
 * 20:36, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick (==Variable &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;==)
 * 11:23, 16 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 11:21, 16 July 2004 User:Patrick (w:Alphabetical order, e.g. in Special:Allpages, is (at least for that range) according to w:ASCII. Note that this means that &quot;a&quot; comes after &quot;Z&quot;, see e.g. [http://tokipona.wikipedia.org/)
 * 07:09, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes referring to other projects or pseudo-namespaces - http://wikimedia.org/langlist)
 * 06:31, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Help:Link gives examples of conversions in the page name from wikitext to HTML, and from HTML to actual target page.)
 * 23:11, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity -Note that even the file name extension of an image is case-sensitive: compare :image:Stop_sign_us.jpg and  :image:Stop_sign_us.JPG)
 * 22:12, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity -For these two, compare e.g. tlh:jo and tlh:Jo, and tokipona:musi with tokipona:Musi.)
 * 20:19, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Namespace prefixes)
 * 08:31, 8 July 2004 User:Patrick (If for the first letter of a page name two cases exist, as in the case of letters of the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and)
 * 23:34, 7 July 2004 User:Patrick (/* Coding of characters http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80)
 * 23:30, 7 July 2004 User:Patrick (A page name can not contain e.g. %41, because that is automatically converted to the character A, for which %41 is the code. %41 is rendered as A. Similarly %C3%80 is automatically converted to th)
 * 22:39, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Case insensitivity - about case-insensitivity of all characters in the page name.)
 * 22:24, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 22:21, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Namespace prefixes)
 * 22:21, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Restrictions)
 * 22:20, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefix &quot;project:&quot; - rm dup)
 * 22:11, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Prefix &quot;Project:&quot;)
 * 21:57, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Case-sensitivity of the first character)
 * 21:54, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
 * 21:15, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity of the first character -All characters of namespace prefixes are case-insensitive. Below &quot;page name&quot; refers to the name without the possible namespace prefix.)
 * 05:15, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Restrictions -misc)
 * 20:18, 24 June 2004 User:Timwi m (→Case-sensitivity of the first character)
 * 14:56, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Restrictions -Also, in the second case there is no link to a Talk page about the book.)
 * 14:48, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Restrictions -For example, there might be a book called w:Wikipedia: The Big Adventure.)
 * 14:25, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Restrictions - Also, the first part of a page name may not coincide with a namespace prefix that is automatically converted to another one, such as w:Project: A-Kon.)
 * 14:06, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - Wikipedia:List of pages whose correct title is not allowed by MediaWiki)
 * 13:55, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Restrictions - rm dup)
 * 13:54, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
 * 13:38, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Restrictions - copied from Wikipedia talk:List of pages whose correct title is not allowed by MediaWiki)
 * 13:18, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (copied from Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions): The following characters are not allowed in page titles:)
 * 13:03, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - Wikipedia:Naming conventions)
 * 12:41, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Ignored spaces/underscores - links)
 * 07:21, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Case-sensitivity of the first character - En Wiktionary case-sensitivity vote)
 * 06:44, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Case where the first character is case-insensitive - Even in the toki pona Wikipedia the first character of the namespace part of a page name is case-insensitive.)
 * 06:10, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Case-insensitivity of the first character)
 * 05:22, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Ignored spaces/underscores)
 * 05:15, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Ignored spaces/underscores -However, e.g. MediaWiki User's Guide:Editing overview and MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing overview are not the same, because &quot;MediaWiki User's Guide:&quot; is a pseu)
 * 00:59, 24 June 2004 User:Angela (toki pona Wikipedia has case-sensitivity titles)
 * 20:54, 23 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes referring to other projects or pseudo-namespaces)
 * 20:40, 23 June 2004 User:Patrick (Spaces/underscores at the start and end of a page name are ignored. In a link, for determining the target page, and also when creating a new page through the URL, the following are also ignored:)
 * 13:23, 23 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes referring to other projects - pseudo-namespaces)
 * 13:05, 23 June 2004 User:Patrick (A page name can not start with a prefix that is in use to refer to another project, e.g. &quot;en:&quot;.)
 * 12:56, 23 June 2004 User:Patrick (Project)
 * 12:51, 23 June 2004 User:Patrick (new)