Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4189499-20150622040155

Hello all.

On our wiki, we have a template that adds the list of categories to our category pages using DPL based on the page name of the category, since the default category system doesn't work on answers wikis and Wikia has said they're not going to fix it (it's a long story that is mostly irrelevant to this post). This has been working pretty well so far with most of the issues being ironed out, but a user recently ran into a situation which broke our system entirely for that category. That situation was a category containing an ampersand (&) in its title. DPL lists do not work for categories with ampersands in the title (see here). I have tried a variety of options to escape the ampersand character, but none of them work. See w:c:drwho.answers:Category:Time & Time Again (comic story) for the category and all the tests done on it to try and fix the issue.

Does anyone know of any work-arounds that could let the DPL list work on the current category? It would be preferable not to have to rename the category, as the category name is based on the name of an actual story which uses the ampersand in the title. 