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?

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