On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin Brunner asked: > > The problem now is, that many mail clients (such as Outlook Web-App) won't > > recognize the ) being part of the URL and just will open > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(disambiguation > > on click - which does not work of course. > > > > So this might be a failure of most browser or mail clients - but can this be > > solved via Mediawiki? > > I cannot see an easy way, other than completely disallowing parens in your > wiki by modifying $wgLegalTitleChars. Rather a brute force approach of course. >
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40265#2115036 for an overview. and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T13056 for much earlier (2007) technical discussion. IIUC, this needs to be filed/solved upstream, as most (?) email clients are now successfully handling paired parentheses within links. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
