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authorGitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>2020-03-03 15:08:08 +0000
committerGitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>2020-03-03 15:08:08 +0000
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@@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ if you clone the wiki repository locally. All uploaded files prior to GitLab
11.3 are stored in GitLab itself. If you want them to be part of the wiki's Git
repository, you will have to upload them again.
+### Special characters in page titles
+
+Wiki pages are stored as files in a Git repository, so certain characters have a special meaning:
+
+- Spaces are converted into hyphens when storing a page.
+- Hyphens (`-`) are converted back into spaces when displaying a page.
+- Slashes (`/`) can't be used, because they're used as path separator.
+
### Length restrictions for file and directory names
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/24364) in GitLab 12.8.