[Wikipedia-l] OneLook

Mon Sep 30 01:38:34 UTC 2002

koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:
>>Andre wrote:
>>Well, whenever I try it, things go wrong. For example, when I try to search
>>"George Bush" on OneLook, the second hit is Wikipedia. If I click on it, it
>>brings me to
>>"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Bush", which gets interpreted as
>>[[GeorgeBush]] rather than [[George Bush]].
[..]
> Maybe there's a way to force the links to send with underlines instead of spaces,
 > so the results will work in all browsers?

(Netscape 4.x is the most common offender here, it gets confused about 
spaces.)

I expect that replacign space with underscores in the title list they're 
searching through will do the right thing; I assume their search is 
already built to deal with underscores (such as we required in our 
incoming URLs pre-February).

Alternatively, Onelook can properly URL-encode their URLs before 
dropping them in an HTML page. In either case, that's something to deal 
with at their end.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)