Forum:Magic words does not seem to work

I have a big template which is based on Wikipedia's Template:infobox.

On header80 I have the following:


 * Edit this template

Which uses Magic Words most of the time is works great, but if a page name has an apostrophe ' or a bracket in the name, it does not work.

For example, instead of


 * http://dead-rising.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template:Colby's+Movieland+Cinema+1&action=edit

It gives me:


 * http://dead-rising.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template:Colby%26%2339%3Bs+Movieland+Cinema+1&action=edit

Any suggestions? I have read magic words several times, and don't know what to do.

Thank you very much in advance. :) Anno1404 05:48, August 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * The simple answer is not to use page names with such characters in the name (Why - because the wiki code processing system treats some characters differently when parshing (processing) the string of text to work on). I think there are ways of passing then but one of the more technical wiki code experts will have to explain it, as i cannot remember were the info on it was that i saw about getting round it.


 * Other similar 'special' characters that cause problems include '/' which creates a sub page (named as the bit after the '/' of a page called the first bit of the title before the '/' and '&' in image captions break the text when used in the caption of photos and are added by the caption input box, anything after the '&' is truncated (if added manually after its OK). these are two examples I know of, but their are more 'special' character that are best avoided in titles. - BulldozerD11 17:34, August 1, 2010 (UTC)