So is this a bug, a wish, or both? Does it matter?

I think it's a wish, but you're right - it really doesn't matter. I'd lke to see this addressed. One of the early places it reared its head was in the Hammer Navigator that Pieter designed. Because my user name has a space, I'm probably more sensitive to it than others. I've had a recent discussion with leiger at his new Shane's text Editor site. He's designed a great looking forum structure, but this wish/bug is annoying me for selfish reasons.

It seems to me it shouldn't be too hard to add a %%created_by_unix%% variable to list pages and other modules.

[edit: ListUsers supports %%name%% now, which returns the unix name, not the "nick name" of the user. In hindsight, that's not a great variable name since it would conflict with %%name%% (page name) in ListPages.]

-Ed

In a similar case, I've solved for users-with-spaces via a simple regex, substituting a hyphen for every instance of a space. In the context of my form-fed listpage, I suppose I could wend %%created_by%% through a similar pipe.

Is that all %%created_by_unix%% would do — replace spaces with hyphens?

Is that all %%created_by_unix%% would do — replace spaces with hyphens?

That, and force everything to lower case. I suspect some other "special characters", if even allowed in user names, may also get converted to hypens (but I can't think of one user name I've seen that has anything other than alpha/numeric characters plus spaces).

A regex via Pipes can do all that. But this would now send %%created_by%% through a feed module in a _template's %%content{n}%%, then through a series of includes, into a listpages.

Seems excessive, and probably not possible.

edit — But to send the username to Pipes, I have to do it via URL… which lands me back in the same problem. Is there any way to perform simple regexes within the context of the wiki?

Gabrys, would this be a solution?

%%created_by_unix%%
%%updated_by_unix%%
%%commented_by_unix%%

it's the same as the normal variables, but replaces each space with a hyphen and makes names lowercase.

I think I made a wish for this but am limited at the moment and won't be able to find it until I get to a computer.

I think the problem is an external URL can't contain space in Wikidot syntax.

Precisely, Piotr. I'm thinking it's more appropriate to convert these names to a useable unix format, rather than reworking Wikidot's syntax to accommodate this use case.

Piotr closed this ticket (prematurely?), but it seems to be the same issue.

Thanks! Looking forward to the implementation of this!

This works great! Thanks from a user with a space in his user name. :)

THANKS!!! ;-)