Forum:Space After Colon

How do you force a space after a colon in an article name on Wikia? The MediaWiki software seems to always interpret the words before the colon as a namespace and then strip the space after the colon. See for example Mortal Kombat:Deception. The software won't seem to allow that article to be moved from "Mortal Kombat:Deception" to "Mortal Kombat: Deception", with a space after the colon. —WikiaCitizen (reply) 22:25, December 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I tried it and failed as well. Interesting problem. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 22:42, December 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * The software doesn't always remove spaces after colons. For example, there are no problems with w:c:fallout:Fallout: New Vegas. The reason why it's removing the space for the title you're trying to enter at your wiki is simple: "Mortal Kombat" actually is a namespace there, it's the name of your wiki's "Project" namespace. -- Porter21 (talk) 23:40, December 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * The project namespace should have been nammed "Mortal Kombat wiki" then ? — TulipVorlax 06:12, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

This is the reason why we set the project namespace initially to " Wiki", so that things like this doesnt happen. Have the admins make a request via the contact form to have this changed. Its going to break a few links, but in the end, it will be better. --Uberfuzzy 06:41, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * Would you be able to go ahead and just make such a change since you're Wikia staff? If not, how do I find out who the admins are on the Mortal Kombat wiki? —WikiaCitizen (reply) 13:05, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * They should be listed on the wiki at Special:ListUsers/sysop. It's better to have the admins on Mortal Kombat make a request from that wiki, because then at least the users there will see the change coming. :) Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 13:23, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * Plus I don't think the admins would be happy to find the wiki's project namespace renamed without them knowing about it before it happens ;) -- Porter21 (talk) 13:58, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks your help, everybody! The request was filed, the namespace change was made, and I've fixed most of the affected links and titles. —WikiaCitizen (reply) 21:30, December 11, 2009 (UTC)