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<languages/> <translate> Some page titles are defined as bad for various reasons. You can't create pages with these titles.
For details of what constitutes a bad title, see [[<tvar|1>#regex</>|regex]] section or <tvar|2>Template:Ll</>.
For reference here is an example of a horrible, but valid title:
- Some¬`!"£$^&*()_+-=~?/.,;:'@
Things you can't use in titles:
- The following standard CGI chars are not good:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Some%s - Very bad!
- The following standard wiki syntax seems to work:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Some%sSome[s - gets trimmed
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Some%sSome]s - gets trimmed
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Some%sSome{s - bad
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Some%sSome}s - bad
- and some just don't work:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Some%sSome#s - gets trimmed
- and some HTML like constructs are very bad, and can't be show here because they break page formatting:
HTTP Codes[edit source]
These vary according to the version number of the software:
- 400 (Bad Request) for v1.19.1 and above
- 200 (OK) for v1.16.4 and earlier
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Regex[edit source]
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# Matching titles will be held as illegal.
$rxTc = '/' .
# Any character not allowed is forbidden...
'[^' . self::legalChars() . ']' .
# URL percent encoding sequences interfere with the ability
# to round-trip titles -- you can't link to them consistently.
'|%[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}' .
# XML/HTML character references produce similar issues.
'|&[A-Za-z0-9\x80-\xff]+;' .
'|&#[0-9]+;' .
'|&#x[0-9A-Fa-f]+;' .
'/S';
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See also[edit source]
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