Remove encoded question mark from URL

Question

Hi I started a fact check wiki where each fact check page page ends in a question mark, for example:

http://wecheck.org/wiki/Did_Mitt_Romney_ever_work_as_a_garbage_collector%3F

But when I share this link on many sites including Facebook by pasting it into a comment box, it strips the %3f (thinking it's the start of a query string I guess) making the link unreachable. I have to use bit.ly to connect to the link which is inconvenient and a problem for novice users.

I think I may be able to use mod-rewrite to take the %3F off. My current rewrite rules are:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]

How would I modify them to strip out the %3F ?

Answer 1

It doesn't look like you want to strip out the %3F. Mediawiki has its own routing so if you mess with the title names, you're more likely break something than fix anything. You need to modify your media-wiki to either disallow pages with a ? at the end, or add a module or wiki bot to go through all the pages, and if there's a page that ends with ?, create a #REDIRECT [[]] page without the ? and point it to the page with the ?.