I wrote: > Hi! > > I also run an own Mediawiki, but the problem is that many browsers do not > encode > the brackets correctly if you copy and paste the URL. > Actually only Firefox/Seamonkey seems to do it right. > > For example: > > The correct link URL for pasting into a mail: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_%28disambiguation%29 > > The URL displayed in the browser, and copied by most browsers: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(disambiguation) > > 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 was thinking: Maybe this can be solved by having a plugin for sharing the link. So that people who have troubles sending the link, can create and share the link with this plugin. E.g. like https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiShare Anyone having any suggestions or experience? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
