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[edit] Image map

Swept in from Wikitravel:Travellers' pub:

Following up from a point in the discussion about the Caribbean Islands (Talk:Main Page#Caribbean islands) I started experimenting with an image map of the world just to see if it was feasible, but after trying things out in User:Wrh2/Sandbox and searching on Google I can't find a way to actually get the <map> and <area> tags working with Wikimarkup. Does Wikimarkup have any way of allowing a clickable image map? -- Wrh2 02:06, 16 Jun 2005 (EDT)

[edit] Linking from one section to another

Swept in from the Pub:

Anyone,

Can anyone tell me how to make a link that takes a reader to a different part of the same article?

Thanks. Sapphire 22:15, 9 Dec 2005 (EST)

Linking like this: #Linking from one section to another will work. I've provided a link to this section --Ravikiran 00:49, 10 Dec 2005 (EST)

[edit] Using special character markup for umlauts etc

Since we're talking about foreign places and languages etc, we're using umlauts and other special characters a lot, but I guess most people are just putting them into pages directly, without using any special wiki markup. So the question is, should people be doing this? I guess there maybe technical reasons why it might be better to use the entity encoding format. Anyone know more about this? e.g. does it make our pages more browser compatible?

The following is taken from 'special characters' from mediawiki users guide. Should we copy that section into our Wiki markup page? Should we say that people should use this format, rather than typing it directly? Note that user's with standard US style keyboards might find this information useful when typing awkward characters, even if is not particularly preferred.

-- Nojer2 11:49, 24 March 2006 (EST)

No, HTML entities should be avoided and direct entry is preferred. As for what's "foreign" and what's "standard", last I checked Wikitravel isn't even based in your little country... Jpatokal 11:57, 24 March 2006 (EST)

Direct entry certainly seems easier (nicer to read the wiki syntax) than the HTML entities. But that way might offer an easier way for someone like me to type a euro character (&euro=€) and other such funny foreign characters on my standard english keyboard :-p

...Seriously though. I was wondering about the technical aspects of how various browsers interpret these characters. Is it possible to corrupt umlauts etc on page, if you edit the page using certain browsers (for example a more basic browser running on a PDA?). I noticed something weird happening on the Zurich page once. Interestingly the example broken characters are rendering differently now. Maybe the problem was fixed, or maybe the characters were further broken by another browser.

To be fully w3c compliant I suppose MediaWiki should really be spitting out these HTML entities in the rendered HTML, but OK we prefer not to see them in the editng textbox. -- Nojer2 18:42, 27 March 2006 (EST)