Calion
I'm having some strange problems with wiki page names. I'm trying to import my wiki from "Wizards Groups":http://community.wizards.com/sydarksun/wiki/, but I'm running into some problems. First, Wizards allows (in fact, encourages) pages with titles like [[House Rules:Background Benefits]]. When I try to make a "page":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/sydarksun/wiki_pages/house-rules-background-benefits with that name, it lets me, but there's no way that I can find to access it. No wiki link that I have been able to construct actually successfully links to the page that got made. So what's its wiki address? And if colons are illegal characters, why was I allowed to make the page?
Secondly, I'm having an even stranger problem with the links to the "Help":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/sydarksun/wikis/help page that I made. The link to the Help page on the Help page works just fine, but on my new "Main":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/sydarksun/wikis/main-page page, even though the [[Help]] link is formatted the same way, the links show up red, want to go to a new page, and if I create that page, it's named "Help-0." The only thing odd about the Main page is that it was originally copied and pasted from my Wizards page, linked above.
What's going on here?
Comments
"House Rules:Background Benefits":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/sydarksun/wiki_pages/house-rules-background-benefits
Linking externally allows you to preserve formatting that includes colons and other otherwise disallowed characters.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Second, do I understand correctly that you are starting with a title in another wiki page? (i.e. typing "[[Part A : B]]" into, say, Home Page?)
If you are creating your pages from the "Create New Page" button, it does not automatically link to any other page: BUT, if you type the page name, exactly, within double-brackets, it _should_ create a solid link. You may be running into a problem with the colon in that it is used as a way to link to character and item stubs specifically, and thus may translate that as an attempt to create an object for which there is no template (sort of).