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damn ampersands

You may notice that various links throughout the site are not working correctly. Specifically, any links that are pointing to a page with an ampersand (&) in the title are messed up. In fact, the ampersand in the link itself will appear incorreclty as a few characters (together called an html entity), and the link will not take you to the page (it will typically take you to a "create a new publication" page).

This is a bug/problem with the linking module the site uses, and it plagued me in the early days of the site and has cropped up again for some reason. The bad news: I don't know if/when I'll be able to fix it. The good news: if I can't fix it, I may be able to install a rich text editor for the site that would allow contributors to edit their text with some standard formatting features (like the bold, italics, etc. buttons you use in word processing software like Microsoft Word). The last time I tried to use the text editors, they conflicted with the linking module...but if I can't get the stupid linking module to work correctly, I'll just upload the text editing module and we'll have to do links differently (we would need to enter the whole URL or web address for the page, instead of just the page title).

Wow, if you actually read all of that then you must be either a) seriously bored or b) a closet techie geek. :)