DisplayTitle

From Charlie.Huggardlee.Net

DisplayTitle is a mediawiki extension I developed with Jim Wilson to provide the functionality of changing an article's displayed title without changing the article's URL using a parser function. It was developed as a replacement for the built-in display title parser function, but still proved useful for having biography pages reside in the User space while still having a useful title (e.g. someone's name as opposed to their domain login name).

Unresolved Issues

After receiving an email from Clayton Cornell of [1] reporting that the extension still works, I looked into this extension again. It turns out that this extension was not as broken as I had originally thought, but instead just needs a bit of a tuneup.

$wgAllowDisplayTitle needs to be explicitly set to false

As of 1.11.0 the default of this variable became true resulting in the use of the built-in function instead of the extension function. While the built-in function is more stable than when the extension was originally developed, it limits the types of changes that can be made to an article, and does not seem to show the display title change on preview (as of 1.12alpha anyways). ^[1]

Lacking title change message

The text of my email is commented in the source of this page I'll get back to converting it into to a wiki form when I have some more time later.

Misleading Preview text

Hidden div issues

References

1. ↑ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgAllowDisplayTitle